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HISTORY OF THE 
PENROSE FAMILY 
OF PHILADELPHIA 



TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED. 



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PHILADELPHIA 



JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, >. 

Author of "Memoranda Relating to the Ancei'iv s;.j "- 

Family of Honorable Levi P. Morton," "Memorials 

of the Read'-' '■' " v,.,^.. v.., ^tg^ Latham. 

andEll<i. y of Harry 

Alden : . of the 

Bringhurst Family, with Notes on the 

Ctarkson, DePeyster, and Boude 

FamiIle?TOdaaWy^f of 

the Girard National Bank 

of Philadelphia" 




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TO THE 
MEMORY OF THE 

HONORABLE CHARLES BINGHAM PENROSE, 

A MAN OF MUCH PRIVATE WORTH; 

A LAWYER OF CONCEDED EMINENCE; 

A CITIZEN WHO LOVED HIS STATE, AND REFLECTED 

HONOUR UPON IT BY HIS DISTINGUISHED 

PUBLIC SERVICES, 

THIS VOLUME 

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY 

THE AUTHOR. 



PREFATORY NOTE 



I am under great obligations to Captain George Hoffman 
Penrose, U. S. A., and Charles Penrose Keith, Esq., of Phila- 
delphia, for their valuable assistance in the preparation of this 
volume. They had been engaged for some years in gathering 
material for a history of the Penrose Family, and at the be- 
ginning of my work, they generously placed all of their col- 
lections at my disposal. 

J. G. L. 

Philadelphia, 1903 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Penrose Arms Frontispiece. 

PAGE 

Silver Cup made in London for Colonel Joseph Penrose in 1763, and 

now in the possession of Mrs. Morris W. Stroud, 13 

Portrait of General Anthony Wayne, 33 

Portrait of Thomas Penrose, 39 

Home of Thomas Penrose, 43 

Silhouettes of William Penrose and Annah Norwood his wife, 60 

Portraits of Major Charles and Anne Howard Bingham, 67 

Fac-Simile of Commission of Clement Biddle Penrose,- 68 

Portrait of Thomas Norwood Penrose, 75 

Portrait of Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose, 83 

Portrait of Mrs. Charles Bingham Penrose, 87 

Portrait of Major James Wilkinson Penrose, 91 

Portrait of Medical Director Thomas Neall Penrose, 97 

Portrait of Colonel William McFunn Penrose, 103 

Portrait of Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, M.D., LL.D., 105 

Portrait of Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose, 109 

Portrait of Colonel Charles Bingham Penrose, 11 1 

Portrait of Clement Biddle Penrose, of New Orleans, 113 

Portrait of Clement Biddle Penrose, Jr., of New Orleans, 113 

Portrait of General William Henry Penrose, 117 

Portrait of Honorable Boies Penrose, 121 

Portraits of Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton 

Penrose, Jr., Spencer Penrose, and Philip Thomas Penrose, 123 

Portrait of Reverend Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose, 125 

Portrait of George Bright Penrose, Esq., 127 

Portrait of Captain Charles Wilkinson Penrose, 129 

Portrait of Captain George Hoffman Penrose, 131 




THE PENROSES IN ENGLAND, 




T is from a quaint old couplet, formed by a 
number of Cornish words, that the home 
of the Penrose family is learned : 

" By Tre, Ros, Pol, Lan, Caer and Pen, 
You may know most of the Cornish men." 

According to Polwhele,* many of the 
families of Cornwall which held lands before the Conquest, 
were distinguished by the appellations of Tre, Pol, and Pen, 
and of these there existed in his day some who had preserved 
from all antiquity and still retained unahenated the very 
estates whence they derived their names. 

In all lands and in every generation, Welshmen have proudly 
recounted the past glories of the Cymry, and with equal tenacity 
their Cornish kinsmen have dwelt upon the ancient independence 
of the Danmonii. The last, the most civilized of the early 
British tribes, was not subdued until the time of Athelstan, when 
the Saxons asserted their superiority. And then, though con- 
quered, the rock-bound coast and rugged fastnesses of the 
Cornish peninsula preserved, as it were lovingly, the Cornish 
language and customs, so that it was not until the last century 
that their dialect became extinct. In the middle ages, the 



* The Rev. Richard Polwhele, the distinguished Cornish poet and historian. 
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Cornish people not only spoke no English, but did not call them- 
selves Englishmen, and legal documents of that period spoke of 
"Anglia et Cornubia." 

The word Penrose is of Cornu-British * origin, and, according 
to the "Parochial History of the County of Cornwall," an 
elaborate and careful work compiled from ancient authorities, 
is derived as a surname from the Manor of Penrose, in the parish 
of Sithney, County Cornwall, which manor gave dwelhng to the 
very ancient family seated in that place, it is said, before William 
the Conqueror landed in Britain. The manor was charmingly 
situated near Helston,f on the banks of the Loo-Pool, which 
partly belonged to it. Writing of this estate, Richard Carew, 
author of the " Survey of Cornwall, " published in London, 1602, 
says: "Under [Helston] runneth the river Loo, whose passage 
to the sea is thwarted by a sandy bank which forceth the sea to 
quart back a great way and to make a pool of some miles in 
compass. It breedeth a peculiar kind of trout, in bigness and 
goodness exceeding such as Uve in the fresh water, but coming 
short of those that frequent the salt. ***** To this 
Pool adjoineth Mr. Penrose's | house, whose kind entertainment 
hath give me and many others experience of these matters. 
He married the daughter of Rashleigh. He beareth Argent 
three bends sable, charged with nine roses of the field. " 

In Dr. Borlase's § time, the parish church of Sithney, dedi- 
cated to St. Sithuinus, contained a tablet inscribed to the 
memory of Bernard Penrose, Prior to St. John's Hospital, who 
died in 1532, and in the east window of the south aisle, are still 

* The Cornish language occupied an interesting pwsition between the Cymrian and the Gaelic, 
and was the representative of a tongue once current over all South Britain. 

t Helston in Cornish, Hellaz in English — the green hall — is a well seated and peopled town, 
and one of the four coinage places. 

t Thomas Penrose, who, marrying about 1576, Agnes, daughter of John Rashleigh, became the 
ancestor of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, baronet, who still quarters the Penrose arms. 

g William Borlase, LL.D., F.R.S., a very ingenious and erudite writer and of an ancient 
Cornwall family, who was bom at Pendeen, 2 February, 1695-6. He was Rector of Ludgrao, 
and author of "Antiquities Historical and Monumental of Cornwall." He died 31 August, 
1772. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



to be found the arms of the Penrose family in stained glass, which 
are also emblazoned on a wooden tablet affixed to the wall of the 
same aisle: Argent, three bends sable, each charged with as 
many roses of the field. Crest — a Loo trout naiant or. 

The arms of the Penrose family, as given in the Herald's 
Visitation of Cornwall in 1531, were: Ermine, on a bend azure 
three roses or ; but subsequently the blazon was as noted above 
on tablet and window of St. Sithuinus. 

The roses in the Penrose coat-armor were probably suggested 
by a play on the last syllable of the name, a custom quite com- 
mon in early heraldry ; and a tradition in the family makes the 
Cornish Penroses adherents of the house of York * in its famous 
feud with the rival house of Lancaster. The rose, queen of 
flowers, entered England freighted with legendary lore. It 
was the Syrian emblem of immortality, and perhaps some cog- 
nate idea makes the Chinese plant it over their graves, as the 
Greeks and Romans carve it on their tombs. In ancient Egypt 
it was the symbol of silence, and in classic mythology this 
significance was preserved in Eros offering a rose to the god of 
Silence. The Greeks held that the rose derived its color from 
the blood of Venus when she trod on the thorn of the white rose 
in going to the dying Adonis. The Turks claim that it is colored 
with the blood of Mohammed, and never suffer it to be on the 
ground. Christian mythology ascribes its origin to a holy 
maiden of Bethlehem, who, condemned to death by fire, prayed 
fervently for deliverance, whereupon the fire was quenched and 
"the burning brands became red roseres, and the unkindled 
brands white roseres, and full of white roses, and these were the 
first roses, both white and red roses, that ever any man sought. " 



* "And, by my sould, this pale and angry rose. 
As cognizance of my blood — drinking hate, 
Will I forever, and my factions wear, 
Until it wither with me, to my grave. 
Or flourish to the height of my degree.' ' 

—First Part of " King Henry VI. " Act II., Scene 4- 

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Henceforth the rose became the flower of the martyrs ; and it was 
also the device of Martin Luther.* 

The fish in the crest of the Cornish family — a Loo trout 
naiant or — is, as were fishes in general, an emblem of chastity. 
It is supposed that fish were regarded with especial favor as 
heraldic charges in the middle ages, from the belief that they 
were the first living things created by God,t and from the fact 
that in early Christian times it was used as a symbol of Christ, 
because the initial letters of "Jesus Christ, the son of God, the 
Saviour, " in Greek, formed the word IX0YZ, " a fish. " 

In ancient times the lordship of the manor of Lizard in Corn- 
wall was vested in the family of le Archer, one of whom. Flora, 
the relict of Peter le Archer, petitioned in 1283 against Godfrey 
de Penrose and Mary his wife, and against Dionisia and Nicho- 
lae, daughters of Richard de Penrose, concerning lands at 
Boffrantam, within the aforesaid manor. Doubtless this was 
the Richard Penrose who was summoned to Parhament 2)2> 
Edward I., and who was the ancestor of the Penroses of Sithney. 

Richard Penrose, of Sithney, was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1526. 
He died 19 January, 1542, and his son and heir, John Penrose, 
died in 1578, leaving a younger son, John Penrose, who married 
Nora, the daughter and heiress of John Tregetho, and was 
seated at Tregethon in Manaccan. From this latter branch 
came the Reverend Thomas Penrose, poet, who died in 1779, 
aged thirty-six years; and Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose 
(second son of the Reverend John Penrose, Vicar of St. Glu- 
vius), born at St. Gluvius, 20 June, 1759; died at Ethy St. 
Winnow, i January, 1830; midshipman on board H. M. frigate 
"Levant," 1775; Lieutenant, August, 1779; Commander, 
April, 1794; Post-captain, 7 October, 1794; Commander of Sea 
Fencibles in the Padstow District, 1803-1810; Commodore at 
Gibraltar, 10 November, 1810; Colonel of Marines, 12 August, 

* Walsh's "Literary Curiosities." t Boutell's "Heraldry." 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1812, to 4 December, 1813; Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 4 De- 
cember, 1813; K.C.B. January, 1816, and K.G.C. St. Michael 
and St. George. He was the author of several publications. 
His son was also in the Royal Navy, and his great-grandson is 
the present Sir Charles Penrose, K.C.B. , born 1820; entered the 
Royal Marines 1837 ; Knight of the Bath 1867 ; Major-General 
1877; Lieutenant-General 1878; General 1879; Knight-Com- 
mander of the Bath 1887. 

The Reverend John Penrose, B.A., father of the Rear-Ad- 
miral above, was born at Exeter, 22 September, 17 13, and died 
at St. Gluvius, 25 June, 1776. He was graduated at Exeter 
College, Oxford, 25 June, 1736, and was Curate of Mailing, 
Kent ; Curate of Shobrooke, Devon, Rector of Sowton, Devon, 
1737, and Vicar of St. Gluvius, Cornwall, from September, 1741, 
until his death. His epitaph by the celebrated authoress, 
Hannah More, reads: 

"If social manners, if the gentlest mind, 
If zeal for God and Love for human kind ; 
If all the charities which Life endear, 
May claim affection or demand a Tear, 
Then Penrose o'er thy venerable Urn 
Domestic Love may weep and Friendship mourn; 
The path of Duty still untir'd he trod. 
He walked with safety, for he walked with God. 
When lost the Pow'rs of Precept and of Pray'r, 
Yet still the Flock remained the Shepherd's care. 
Their Wants still nobly watchful to supply, 
He taught his last, best Lesson, how to die." 

His eldest son, the Reverend John Penrose, was born at St. 
Gluvius, 15 August, 1753, and was graduated at Exeter College 
in 1774. He was Vicar of Fledborough in Nottinghamshire, 
where he died 14 September, 1829. The latter's eldest son, also 
the Reverend John Penrose, third of the name, received the 
degree B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 28 June, 1799; 
became Vicar of Cardinham, and later. Rector of Fledborough. 
He was a noted divine and the author of many pamphlets; also of 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



a work entitled : "Lives of Vice- Admirals Sir Charles Vinicombe 
Penrose, K.C.B., and Captain James Trevenen, Knight of the 
Russian Orders of St. George and St. Vladimir. " The life of 
the first-named, with portrait, occupied i8o pages of the work, 
while that of Captain Trevenen is compiled from a manuscript 
written by Admiral Penrose, who married, 2 January, 1787, 
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Reverend John Trevenen, and 
sister of the captain. 

In the seventeenth century the following of the name were 
graduated at Oxford : 

George Penrose, Lincoln College, matriculated 13 November, 
1658. One of this name was prebendary of Pencil in Collegiate 
Church of Chumleigh, Devon, 1664. 

John Penrose, armiger, Exeter College, matriculated 1 5 June, 

1657- 

Parmenas Penrose, son of William, of Holdsworth, Devon, 
Trinity College, matriculated 15 March, 1677, aged fifteen. 

Thomas Penrose, son of Thomas, of Rose-Vedney, Cornwall, 
gentleman, Brasenose College, matriculated 13 March, 1639-40, 
aged eighteen. 

William Penrose, son of Thomas, of Ludgevan, Cornwall, 
gentleman, Exeter College, matriculated 12 July, 1672, aged 
fifteen. 

To the above college graduates may be added, Francis Pen- 
rose, son of Henry, of St. Anthony, Cornwall, gentleman, Exeter 
College, matriculated 21 April, 1702; aged sixteen; B.A. 1705; 
curate of St. Anthony in Meneage, and Vicar of St. Burian, 
Cornwall. His son, Francis Penrose, of Stonthorne, near Ply- 
mouth, and of Kestell in Manaccan, was an eminent surgeon 
who practiced many years at Bicester in Oxfordshire, where he 
married in 1741, Jane, daughter of Thomas Potter. He was a 
voluminous writer, mainly on topics pertinent to his profession. 
His son, James Penrose (i 750-1818), was surgeon- extraordinary 
to the King. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



The Penroses of Ireland — who bore for arms, argent, a bend 
azure between three roses gules; crest, a lion's head erased or, 
collared gules — descend from Robert Penrose, of Yorkshire, 
who was of Cornish extraction and who removed to Ireland in 
1669. His son, Robert Penrose, born 1670, married Mary Clay- 
ton in 1695, and emigrated with part of his family to Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, in 1717. Later he settled in Richland, 
Montgomery County, where he founded the well-known Pen- 
rose family of that place.* 

Bartholomew Penrose, to whose descendants this work is 
devoted, was undoubtedly of Cornish stock. His birthplace or 
his parentage has not been learned, but there is little doubt that, 
prior to coming to Philadelphia, he had resided at Bristol, 
England, and had there first engaged in the art of ship-building. 
He had a brother, Thomas Penrose, also a ship-builder, a man of 
wealth, and possessed of large landed estates, who resided some 
time at Clifton, and at his death, at Bedminster, across the river 
from the old city of Bristol, in which also he had an estate, as is 
shown by his last will and testament, dated 17 March, 1721, 
probated in the Prerogative Court on 27 June, 1722, by his 
widow and executrix. An abstract of it is as follows : 

"I Thomas Penrose of the parish of Bedmister in Co. Somerset, shipwright. 

"I give to my wife Elizabeth Penrose my manor or reputed manor and 
mansion house of Moreton in the said county, and all the lands, tenements &c. 
&c. thereto belonging lying in Moreton in the parish of Compton Martin in the 
said county, and my messuage and lands lying at a place called Rudgehill 
within the parish of Winford in the said county, in the holding of George Brocke 
ray tenant; my toft or tenement called Pages tenement; my messuage and 
tenement called Sheppars with the lands thereto belonging and the parcel of 
ground called the Fifteen acres late Clarkes; my messuage called Sea Wall 
tenement, all which said last mentioned premises are in the parish of Kingston 
Seymour in the said county; and my parcel of ground called Hickes warth in 
the parish of Clevedon in the said county; my messuage called the White Heart 
lying near a place called the Lime Kilnes in the par. of Clifton and county of 
Gloucester; and the reversions and remainders of all the said premises: To 

* See "Old Richland Families," by Ellwood Roberts. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



hold to my said wife for life, subject to the payment of the yearly sum of ;^40 
clear to my son Romney Penrose and the heirs of his body; for default to my 
daughters Elizabeth, now wife of Edward Lowe, and Anne Penrose and their 
heirs. After the death of my said wife I give all the said premises to my said son 
Romney and the heirs of his body, for default to my said daughters Elizabeth 
and Anne and their heirs for ever. 

"I also give to my said wife my messuage or farm which I bought of Thos. 
Goldney & Richard Hawksworth in the said par. of Kingston Seymour for 
her life subject to the payment of the yearly rent of £15 to my said dau. Anne 
and the heirs of her body; for default to my said son Romney and dau. EUzabeth 
Lowe and their heirs. 

"After the death of my said wife I give the said messuage to my said dau. 
Anne and the heirs of her body; for default to my said son Romney and dau. 
Elizabeth and their heirs for ever. 

"To my said dau. Anne £300 at her age of 21 years. 

"I give to my said wife a silver tankard engraved with the name of the 
"Cranfeild Frigott," i large silver bason and 2 pairs of candlesticks, which after 
her death shall go to my said children. 

"The provisions herein made for my said wife and children are in full satis- 
faction of all settlements made on them by indentures of lease and release made 
4th and 5 th November, 1702, and the dower of my said wife. 

"I give to my son Thomas Penrose my messuage or dwelling house wherein 
I now dwell in Bedmister aforesaid with the dock, outhouses, grounds, &c. 
thereto belonging; and my messuage in Baldwin Street in the par. of St. Stephen 
in Bristol, and all those closes, (part of Pages Tenement) containing 20 a. to 
hold to him and to the heirs of his body during the remainder of my term and 
estate therein ; and for default I give the same to my said son Romney and his 
heirs for ever. 

"I give to the said Thomas my great silver tankard marked N.B. 

T.P. 

"Whereas I have given a bond for the payment of £400 to the use of my said 
son Thomas, viz ;i£ioo at his age of 21 years and the rest at my death. I now 
give to him £300, which together with the legacies given to him herein make 
up the said ;£400. 

"I give to my said wife all my household goods &c; and I hereby leave to 
her the tuition of my said dau. Anne during her minority. 

"To my brother James Penrose £10. 

"I not only forgive and release to the heirs and executors of my late brother 
Bartholomew Penrose lately residing in 'Pensilvana' all the money he owed 
me, but I also give to his children £$. when they small come and demand the 
same. 

" All the rest of my goods to my said wife whom I make sole executrix. 

"I appoint Christopher Shuter, Esq., late Mayor of Bristol, John Etwell 



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of the same city, M.D., Captain Edmund Saunders and Mr. Richard Battis- 
comb to be overseers. 

"Whereas some time ago I contracted with Robert Knight, Esq., lately 
treasurer of the South Sea Company for the sale to him and his heirs for ever 
of my said manor of Moreton and all my said messuages, lands, &c. in Compton 
Martin, Kingston Seymour and Clevedon for £7500 whereof £1000 was paid; 
I now desire my said overseers to endeavor to get the said contract performed. 

"Tho. Penrose. 
"Witnesses: 

"Tho. Cottles, 

"Sid. Feast, 

"Hen. Bampton." 

This Thomas Penrose was buried, according to Bedminster 
Church records, on 5 April, 1722, but no tombstone has been 
found. His son, Thomas Penrose, apparently his eldest, died 
without issue, and his will, dated 21 November, 1723, was pro- 
bated in the Prerogative Court on 23 December following. 

Romney Penrose, the other son of the first-named Thomas, 
appears in Foster's Alumni Oxienses thus: "Penrose, Rumney, 
son of Thomas of Clifton, co. Gloucester, gent. Merton Col- 
lege, matric. 17 October, 1717, aged 16. B. A. 1721, M. A. 
1724." So he was born in 1701, and, from the entry as to his 
son, appears to have been a clergyman of the Church of Eng- 
land, who was residing in Bristol in 1749. The son appears in 
the said book thus: "Penrose, Rumney, son of Rumney of 
Bristol (city) clerk, Wadham College, matric. 26 May, 1749, 
aged 16. B. C. L. from St. John's Coll. 1 756, and fellow, Rector 
of St. E wen's, Bristol, 1762 until his death in 1786." He was 
also chaplain to the Earl of Northesk. Letters of administra- 
tion on the estate of this Romney Penrose were granted 23 
August, 1786, to Elizabeth Penrose, spinster, sister and only 
next of kin of said decedent. 

James Penrose, brother of the emigrant to Pennsylvania, is 
probably the James Penrose of the City of Bristol, shipwright, 
who made his will dated 4 December, 1722, leaving all his prop- 
erty to his wife Elizabeth. 

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HISTORY OF THE PENROSE 
FAMILY OF PHILADELPHIA. 




j Bartholomew Penrose/ the founder of 
the Penrose family of Philadelphia, was a 
native of England, and was engaged with 
his brother, Thomas Penrose, in the ship- 
building business, at Bristol, Gloucester- 
shire, before coming to America. Much of 
the early trading between England and 
Philadelphia, was carried on from Bristol, and from that port 
sailed many of the ships which brought the early colonists to 
Pennsylvania. Bartholomew Penrose witnessed the departure 
and return of some of these ships, and from his intercourse 
with out-and-in-going passengers and sea-captains, and possibly 
William Penn himself (with whom he was no doubt personally 
acquainted), he came to possess much information concerning 
Penn's rising province in the New World. Avaihng himself of 
such information, and being young, enthusiastic, and of an 
adventurous spirit, he finally determined to quit Old England, 
and to emigrate to Pennsylvania, whither he came about A.D. 
1700, making his settlement in Philadelphia. 

Mr. Penrose doubtless came well provided with letters of rec- 
ommendation and introduction, and with means, since he is 



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found marrying, two or three years later (1703) the daughter of a 
wealthy and prominent citizen, and acquiring landed posses- 
sions. In 1705 he conveyed to Giles Green land on Front 
Street, where the most valuable real estate was situated, and 
which was described in the conveyance as bounded by other land 
belonging to Mr. Penrose. In March following (1706), he pur- 
chased of Edward Smout, merchant, a lot of land, containing in 
breadth one hundred and eight feet and in depth two hundred 
and fifty feet, situated on the street commonly called King Street, 
and on the banks of the Delaware River. In other words, a 
property at what is now Delaware Avenue and Market Street. 
For this property he paid two hundred and thirty pounds. Here 
he subsequently resided and carried on his business ; and here, 
it is said, occurred a fire in which were lost, not only his own 
personal and early family records, but much valuable property. 
The estate so purchased remained in his family until 19 August, 
1 73 1, when his children sold and conveyed it to WilHam Par- 
sons, describing it as one hundred and eight feet in front, and 
depth two hundred and fifty feet to the river. 

Mr. Penrose, soon after his settlement in Philadelphia, 
engaged there in shipbuilding. About 1706, he began the 
construction of a ship, known as the " Dihgence," William 
Penn being a partner in such enterprise, as were, also, 
William Penn, Jr., James Logan, and that eminent Phila- 
delphia merchant, William Trent. The first voyages of 
the ship were made to foreign parts, under the direct 
command of Mr. Penrose himself, and Penn's books of 
account, as kept by Logan, contain numerous entries re- 
lating to the business ventures of these voyages. Mention 
of the ship is also found in several of Logan's letters to 
Penn. In a letter dated 3 March, 1706-7, Logan writes: "I 
wrote thee in my former letter to get insured upon the ship 
Diligence, Barth. Penrose, master, burthen about 150 tons, 
to the value of ;^5oo or ;^6oo sterhng. She is to be sent from 




SilvIr Cup of Colonel Joseph Penrose; Original now in Possession 
OF Mrs. Morris W. Stroud. 



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FIRST GENERATION. 



hence to Virginia, there to load, and thence to England, with 
convoy, directly to London, if any offers; if not, then north 
about Scotland, and she ought to be insured from hence to 
Virginia, and thence as aforesaid." At the date of this letter, 
the construction of the ship had not been completed, although 
she had been named "Diligence." She was launched 4 May, 
1707, on which day news of the union of the kingdoms of Eng- 
land and Scotland was received at Philadelphia, and, in honor 
of this event, she was christened "Happy Union." Logan in a 
letter to Penn, written the day after the launching, says : " Yes- 
terday we had the certainty of the Union's being confirmed, and 
the same day was launched the ship I have mentioned to thee 
under the name of Happy Union; but her name Diligence will 
be retained in the register and bills of lading, to have such 
insurances as may be already made according to former direc- 
tions. She may sail from hence to Virginia, we suppose in six 
weeks hence." 

Logan's expectations of the early sailing of the "Diligence" 
were not reaHzed, as it is learned from one of his later letters 
that she did not leave Virginia until 5 April, 1708, when she had 
as her convoy, the "London Merchant," and two other ships. 
The "London Merchant" was captured on her voyage by a 
French privateer, but the Dihgence made a successful trip, and 
carried with her a remittance from Logan to Penn of over ;^5oo, 
and to the latter's son, ;i^3oo. Her return to America was by 
the way of Barbadoes, as is learned from Penn's letter to Logan, 
dated 29 September, 1708, in which the former writes: "Samuel 
Vause has with acknowledgment of his fault, written largely to 
thee by way of the Barbadoes packet ship Diligence alias 
Union." 

Mr. Penrose died at Philadelphia, and was buried, 17 Novem- 
ber, 1 71 1, in Christ Church ground, and probably under a part 
of the present church building. He was an Episcopalian, and 
his family long remained identified with Christ Church, two of 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



his descendants, Mr. Clement B, Newbold, and Charles Penrose 
Keith, Esq., being members of the present (1903) vestry. The 
following is a copy of Mr. Penrose's will : 

"In the Name of God Amen, I Bartholomew Penrose of Philadelphia 
Shipwright this day of December in y^ eighth year of ye reign of our Sov- 

ereign Lady Queen Anne of England &c. Anno Dom 1709 being very sick and 
Weak in Body but of perfect mind & Memory & being desirious to Settle 
my Estate In order thereunto I doe make and ordain this my Last Will and 
Testament in manner & forme following Revoaking & absolutely Annulling 
by these psents all & every Testament or Testaments Will & Wills heretofore 
by me made & declared Either by word of mouth or by Wrighting nothwith- 
standing any Promiss to ye contrary or cause dirogatory in ye same and this to 
be taken only for my Last Will and Testament and none other and touching 
such Temporall Estate as God Almighty has Blessed me withal I do order give 
Bequeath and dispose of ye same in manner and forme following Viz : 

" Item. I will that my loving Wife Hestor shall have all her Wearing Apparel 
for her body as well Woolling as Lining and all her Linnon for children and 
all such Rings and Bracelets as she has. 

"Item. I bequeath to my Brothor Thos Penrose in ye Kingdom of England 
shipwright Six Shillings wch being deducted and my Debts paid and defalked, 
I will that ye Residue of my Estate both Real & Personal shall be Limited 
reckoned and divided into three equal Parts one third equal part Whereof I 
give and bequeath unto my Wife Hestor Penrose in full Recompence Com- 
pensation & Satisfaction of and for all Such Part or Portion as She by the Laws 
of The Province of Pensilvania or Otherwise ought to have or can or may claime 
to have of my Estate both Real and Personal afores^ and the other two Equal 
third parts Residue of my s^ Estate both Real and personal I Give and bequeath 
to and among my three Children that is to say my Daughters Dorothy and Sarah 
Penrose & my Son Bartholomew Penrose to them part & parte alike to be 
Divided and their parts thereof to be paid and deHvered to them severally as they 
respectively shall AccompUsh the Age of twenty and one Years And I will yt if 
Either of my Children should decease before ye sd Age of Twenty one Years Pro- 
vided allways and I do Will that my Son Barth Penrose Shall have Fivety pounds 
Current Money of Pensilvania aforesd Over and above & Beyond his Rateable 
Part or Portion of ye sd two Thirds of my Estate as aforesd that then and In such 
Case the portion of Either of them so dying Shall remain and be to the Survivor 
of them. 

"Provided Always and I do Will provide and Ordain by these psents that 
if here after I Shall fortune to have any Other or more child or children shall 
have a Uke ratable part or portion of and in my sd Estate both Real & psonall 
wth those my Children before named as if [they] Expressly amongst them had 
been Named by name to have been Equal Partaker, or Partakers thereof, 

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FIRST GENERATION. 



Anything whatsoever hereinto ye contrary in any wise notwithstanding and I 
do hereby Leave my sd Children & Every of them to ye Care & Tuicon of my 
dear Wife untill Such time as they shall severally attaine to their respective Ages 
of Twenty one Years Provided She so long remains in her pure Widowhood 
But in Case She Should Marry again then after such Marriage I do Will and 
appoint and desire my Trusty Friends William Trent, Esq, and Mr. Toby 
Leech or Either of them to be Executors of this my last Will & Testament and 
to See the same Duely performed and to have ye Administration of ye Portions 
of my sd Children untill they Arive to their Respective Ages aforesd and to have 
the Education of them During their Minority, 

"And Lastly I do hereby Appoint ordain & Constitute my beloved Wife 
Hestor Penrose during the time she remains my Widow, Sole Exrx of this my 
last Will & Testament. 

"In Witness Whereof I the sd Bartholomew Penrose have Subscribed 
this my last Will & Testament w'h my own hand & thereunto put my seal the 
day & year first above written. 
"Signd seald published & delivrd up by 
the said Bartholomew Penrose in the 
presence of these Wittnesses under sub- 
scribed. )> Barthow Penrose [seal] 
"John Bowyer, v 
"Gabriel Wilkerson, | 
"John Leech." 

Will proved 7 January, 1711-12. 

Bartholomew Penrose married, about 1703, Esther, daughter 
of Toby Leech, Esq.,* by his wife Esther Ashmead. Shortly 



* Toby or Tobias Leech was a native of Gloucestershire, England, where the surname 
of Leech was an ancient one. He was a son of Tobias Leech, of Cheltenham, in that shire, 
and was baptized there, i January, 1652, and died in Cheltenham township, Philadelphia (now 
Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, 13 November, 1726. He married, 26 December, i67g, 
Esther Ashmead, who died at the latter place, 11 August, 1726, aged sLxty-six years. Toby 
Leech seems to have been brought up to the tanning business, as in early deeds in Pennsylvania 
he is styled " tanner." In 1682 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, accompanied by his family, and 
that of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Ashmead. There is a tradition in the family that he came 
in the ship " Welcome" with William Penn, and this is possible, as, in less than a month after 
Perm's arrival, Mr. Leech is known to have been in Philadelphia, and to have then purchased 
from Penn two hundred and fifty acres of land. The tract so secured was located in what 
became Cheltenham township, and there Mr. Leech settled, the Ashmeads locating on an ad- 
joining tract of equal size, the township deriving its name in honor of the English home of the 
Leeches and Ashmeads. 

Mr. Leech was one of the substantial men among the early colonists, and he came to be one 
of the largest landed proprietors in the province. Upon his home plantation he erected a com 
and fulling mill, the first constructed in that part of the province, and he there carried on the 
milling business in conjunction with farming. His first mansion house was destroyed by fire 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



after the death of Mr. Penrose his widow married Nathaniel 
Poole, a ship-builder, and survived but a short time, as she was 
buried in Christ 



I April, 1713. 



The children of (/>> ^^ ^/H^O^-^ 



Church grounds, ^ /^ ^^ 

Bartholomew 

Penrose were probably born in the order given below, as they 
are named in this order in the will of their grandfather Leech. 
The son Thomas was not born at the date of his father's will, 
so is not named therein. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

2. Dorothy Penrose,^ born circa 1703; died 11 August, 1764; married 
Isaac Shoemaker. 

in 1700, and the one built to take its place is still standing on Church Road east of the Old York 
Road, near the present (1Q03) Elkins Station, North Pennsylvania Railroad, and is one of the 
oldest houses in Pennsylvania. In 1713 he was elected a representative from Philadelphia County 
in the Provincial Assembly, and re-elected in 1714-1715. 1717, and 1719. Ahhough his marriage 
was in Friends' Meeting, in later life, probably through the Keithian movement, he became 
an Episcopalian, and doubtless a founder of Trinity Church, Oxford, in the ancient graveyard 
of which he and his wife, and many of their descendants, are buried. 

Mr. Leech was possessed of a large estate at his death, and by his will disposed of twenty- 
seven hundred acres of land, six hundred of which composed his home plantation. Besides 
two other plantations, of five hundred acres each, in Philadelphia County, he owned one of five 
hundred acres in Chester County, and one of six hundred acres in New Castle County, Delaware. 
He also owned a number of slaves, eight of whom are named in his will. 

His eldest son, Tob/, Jr., was a farmer, and died in March, 1727, leaving a widow and children. 

John, the second son, was a merchant in Philadelphia, and was buried at Christ Church, 
35 December, 1745, leaving a widow and children. 

Thom.is, the third son, was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, and one of the leading men 
of that city. He was clerk to the Assembly from 1723 until 1727; member of that body for 
twenty-five years, serving as speaker in 1758, and 1759; treasurer of Philadelphia County in 
1757-8-g; trustee of the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, from 
1749 until his death, and was for thirty-two years a vestryman of Christ Church, and for five 
years one of its wardens. He, with Isaac Norris and Edward Warner, composed the committee 
appointed by the legislature, to purchase the bell for the " State House," now the famous " In- 
dependence Bell." He died 31 March, 1762, leaving a widow and children. His son, 
Captain Thomas Leech, was a naval commander of the province, and was one of those chosen 
by the Continental Congress, 9 March, 1776, to sign the $4,000,000 bills of credit then ordered 
to be issued. 

Isaac, the fourth son of Toby Leech, Sr., received under his father's will, the greater part 
of the home plantation, and in 1741 was commissioned a justice of the peace. He died 10 De- 
cember, 1744, leaving a widow and issue. 

Captain Jacob, the youngest son, was an officer in the provincial army at the lime of his death, 
28 January, 1750. He also left a widow and issue. 

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FIRST GENERATION. 



3. Sarah Penrose,' born circa 1705; died 28 April, 1777; married Richard 

Mather. 

4. Bartholomew Penrose,' Jr., born circa 1708; died i February, 1758; 

married Mary Kirll. 

5. Thomas Penrose,' born probably in January or February, 1709-10; 

died 17 November, 1757; married Sarah Coats. 




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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 




2. Dorothy Penrose,^ daughter of Barthol- 
omew Penrose ^ by his wife Esther Leech, 
was born at Philadelphia, about 1703; 
died at Shoemakertown, Cheltenham town- 
ship, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) 
County, Pennsylvania, 11 August, 1764; 
married, circa 1722, Isaac Shoemaker, son 
of George Shoemaker * by his wife Sarah Wall ; born at Chel- 
tenham township, 23 October, 1700; died there, in 1741. 

Issue, born in Cheltenham township : 

6. John Shoemaker/ born i April, 1726; died 18 November, 1807. 

7. Isaac Shoemaker,^ died 16 August, 1764. 

8. Thomas Shoemaker ^; died unmarried. 

9. Joseph Shoemaker.^ 

10. Esther Shoemaker,^ born 2 April, 1732; died at Baltimore, Maryland, 

8 September, 1796; married Isaac Tyson.t 

11. Sarah Shoemaker,' born 2 October, 1733; died at Baltimore, Mary- 

land, 24 December, 1799; married 3 May, 1755, Nathan Sheppard, of 
Abington, son of Moses Sheppard, of Cumberland County, New Jersey. 

12. George Shoemaker,' died 23 January, 1764. 

3. Sarah Penrose,- daughter of Bartholomew Penrose^ by 
his wife Esther Leech, was born at Philadelphia, circa 1705 ; died 
at Cheltenham, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Penn- 
sylvania, 28 April, 1777; married, circa 1726, Richard Mather, 
son of Joseph Mather by his wife Ehzabeth Russell | ; born at 
Cheltenham, 14 October, 1699; died there, 15 July, 1776. 
Joseph Mather, the father, came to Pennsylvania in 1683, in the 
employ of Phineas Pemberton, who was one of the leading men 

* Benjamin H. Shoemaker published (1Q03) the Genealogy of the Shoemaker Family. It is 
a handsome publication, and gives the descendants of Isaac Shoemaker by his wife Dorothy 
Penrose. 

t Isaac Tyson, by his wife Esther Shoemaker, had a son Elisha Tyson, born 8 February, 
i7So; died at Baltimore, 16 February, 1824; married s November, 1776, Mary, daughter of 
William and Hannah Amos, and by her had : Mary Tyson, Lucretia Tyson, Isaac Tyson, Elisha 
Tyson, Nathan Tyson, and William Tyson. The daughter Mary Tyson, born 4 September, 
1785; died 18 March, 1858; married n June, 1812, Enoch Clapp, and had issue: Nathan Tyson 
Clapp, of Philadelphia, the father of Benjamin Franklin Clapp, a member of the Philadelphia 
Bar. 

t Daughter of John Russell by his wife, Mary Woodward. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, during its early history, and 
the founder of the well-known Pemberton family of Philadel- 
phia. Richard Mather, the son, was a farmer and miller, and 
owned a large tract of land. He was a Quaker, actively identi- 
fied with the Abington Monthly Meeting. 

Issue, born at Cheltenham : 

13. Joseph Mather,^ born 28 September, 1728; married Elizabeth Miller. 

14. Bartholomew Mather,^ born 15 January, 1729-30; married Sarah 

Livezey. 

15. Elizabeth Mather,^ born 29 February, 1731-32; died 26 December, 

1781 ; married Nathan Thomas, of Bristol township. 

16. Sarah Mather,^ born 23 September, 1733; died unmarried. 

17. Richard Mather,^ born 31 October, 1735; died 4 April, 1764; married 

Phebe No issue. 

18. Benjamin Mather,^ born 15 November, 1737; married Ann Thomas. 

19. Mary Mather,^ born 27 September, 1739; died 24 May, 1773; married 

Matthew Tyson, by whom she had two children, who died young. 

20. Isaac Mather,^ born 9 September, 1741; died 4 December, 1808; 

married Mary Morris. 

21. Esther Mather,^ born 22 September, 1745; died young. 

22. Hannah Mather,' born 12 July, 1747; married Jonathan Jarrett. 

4. Bartholomew Penrose, Jr.,^ son of Bartholomew Pen- 
rose ^ by his wife Esther Leech, was born at Philadelphia, circa 
1708; died there, i February, 1758, and was buried in the 
graveyard of Christ Church, with which parish his family was 
connected. In a deed dated 19 August, 1 731, he is styled " eldest 
son and heir at law," and joined his brothers and sisters in 
conveying land inherited from their father.* He was a large 
landed proprietor, as is shown by the following advertisement 
from the "Pennsylvania Gazette" of 26 February, 1754: 

"Philadelphia, February 26, 1754. 
"To be lett by the subscriber, a good plantation, in the township of Passyunk, 
about four miles from this city, whereof forty acres is good drain'd meadow, 
and twenty acres choice upland; with a new house erected thereon, a large 
range on the unimprov'd part thereof, a stock of horses, cows, &c., and other 
imphments of husbandry, to be rented therewith, if suitable to the tenant. 

* Philadelphia Deed Book, F, v, 515. 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Also to be let or sold on ground rent forever, one hundred and twenty-five acres 
of fine land, about half a mile distant from the above place, with a good house 
and barn &c., or any other part thereof exceeding five acres. Likewise to be 
sold, a tract of land, containing three hundred acres, in Bucks County, about 
sixteen miles from Philadelphia, bourdering upon the line dividing Philadelphia 
from Bucks. The Southampton road runs through part of said tract. Any 
person inclining to purchase or rent any of the above said tracts of land may 
have a reasonable time of credit allowed them, by applying to the owner, 
Bartholomew Penrose, near the Draw-bridge. 

"N.B. Stolen or strayed away from the first mentioned place a chunky 
brown horse, has a black spot on one of his buttocks, about the size of a small 
hand. Any person producing the said horse to the said Bartholomew Pen- 
rose, shall have twenty shillings reward." 

He married, at Christ Church, 21 May, 1737, Mary, daughter 
of John Kirll.* Mr. Penrose was a merchant, but is styled "of 
Philadelphia, Gent," in a deed of 15 July, 1 751, in and by which 
he and his wife conveyed sundry landed interests lately possessed 
by his wife's father, and formerly the estate of her grandfather, 
Joseph Kirll.f 

Issue : 

23. Joseph Penrose,' born 1738; died 15 February, 1784. 

24. Sarah Penrose,^ born circa 1743; died 21 March, 1791; married 

Abraham Robinson, Esq. 

25. Margaret Penrose,' born 1744; died 3 April, 1801 unmarried and 

without issue. 

26. William Penrose,' buried 2 March, 1745-46. 



* Joseph Kirll, an English sea captain, settled in Philadelphia, about 1690. He married 
at St. Michael's Parish, Island of Barbadoes, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Brett, of that 
place. He was doubtless a member of the Society of Friends, as his marriage and the record 
of his death, as well as that of his wife, are found on the books of Friends' Meeting at Philadel- 
phia. On 8 December, 1691, he purchased a tract of land on Front Street, Philadelphia, ex- 
tending to the Delaware river, including a wharf and a house, and later purchased sundry other 
tracts of land, one of which was a tract of sixty-seven acres, known as Sidbrook Island, and an- 
other, a plantation of one hundred and five acres, in Passyunk township. 

He died at Philadelphia, 24 September, 1704, and his wife Mary died there, 23 November, 
the same year. His will, dated 4 April, 1702, names wife Mary; children John, Brett, and 
Mary; sister Hannah Lefevre, and "her daughters Mary and Hannahj"; sister Susan Cam- 
bridge in England, " and her children." His eldest son, John Kirll, was a merchant, and died 
in 1722. He married, and left surviving him an only child and heiress, Mary, who married 
Bartholomew Penrose. The second son, Brett Kirll, married, and left surviving him an only 
son and heir, Joseph Brett Kirll. 

t Philadelphia Deed Book, H, ii, 370. 

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SECOND GENERATION. 



27. Mary Penrose,^ born 1749; died 18 April, 1793; married General 
Anthony Wayne. 

5. Thomas Penrose,^ son of Bartholomew Penrose ^ by his 

wife Esther Leech, was born at Philadelphia, probably in 

January or February, 1709-10, and died 17 November, 1757, and 

was interred in Christ Church burying-ground. He was a ship- 

^..^ builder and a shipping mer- 

^^^^^ ^ ^/^ ^^ chant, and traded with for- 

^ n^O . (yC/ftAOT^ eign ports in ships of which 

^ he was a part owner, and 

from his will, which is given below, it appears that, at the mak- 
ing thereof, he was an owner of the ship "Britannia," and of 
other vessels. In 1 747 he became a part owner of the brigan- 
tine "Greyhound"; in 1750, the ship "Ranger"; in 1753, the 
ship "Neptune." 

"In the name of God, Amen, I, Thomas Penrose, of Wiccacoe, in the County 
of Philada, & province of Pennsylvania, Shipwright, being weak in Body, but. 
Blessed be God, of Sound & well Disposed mind & memory, do therefore think 
fit to make this my Last Will & Testament in manner following, that is to say, 
First It is my will that all my just debts & funeral Expenses shall be duely paid 
& Satisfied, and I give & Devise unto my Son Thomas Penrose, & to his 
Heirs & Assigns for Ever, all those my two Brick Tenements, Wharf & Lot 
of Ground Situate in Wiccacoe afores^, which I purchased of John Leech, con- 
taining in Breadth fifty four feet or thereabouts on Delaware River, & Ex- 
tending Westward about One hundred & Eighty feet, more or less, from the 
West side of Swanson Street, Bounded on the South by Queen Street, with the 
appurtenances. Also I give & Devise unto my son James Penrose & to his 
Heirs & Assigns for Ever, All that Messuage or Tenement wherein I now 
dwell. Wharf & Lot of Ground Containing in Breadth on Delaware River 
fifty six feet or thereabouts & Extending Westward from Delaware River to 
the East side of Front Street Continued Southward beyond the City of Philada, 
& Together with the Elitchen, Edifaces, Buildings & appurtenances thereunto 
Belonging, Excepting & for Ever reserving thereto an Alley or Passage of Ten 
feet & an half wide on the North Side thereof, and to Extend from the East side 
of Swanson Street down as far Eastward as my New Stores & as much farther 
as will be Convenient to turn a Cart & Horse, which Alley or Passage Shall 
be & remain for the Common Use & Benefit of my sd Son James & my two 
Sons, Isaac & Samuel, their Heirs & Assigns for Ever Also I give & Devise 
unto my Son Isaac Penrose & to his Heirs & Assigns for Ever All that Messuage 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



or Tenement, Wharf, Store & Lot of Ground on the North side of my sd Son 
James's Lot, containing in breadth on Delaware River Fifty six feet or there- 
abouts, & extending Westward to the middle or half way between Swanson 
Street & Front Street continued, with the appurtenances, Also I give & Devise 
unto my Son Samuel Penrose & to his Heirs & Assigns for Ever, All that 
Smith's Shop Wooden Tenement Store Wharf & Lot of Ground on the north 
side of my sd Son Isaac's Lot, containing in breadth on Delaware River fifty six 
feet or thereabouts & extending Westward to the Middle or half Way between 
Swanson Street & Front Street continued, vidth the appurtenances. And my 
Mind, Will & Order is that out of & from the East End of the aforesd ten feet 
& one half alley, another Alley or Passage of seventeen feet in breadth, shall 
Extend northwd across the respective Lots of my sd Sons Isaac & Samuel and 
that Each of them, my sd two Sons Isaac & Samuel, shall leave out five feet 
three Inches of their respective Lots for another Alley or Passage to Extend 
from the Middle of the sd Seventeen feet Passage as far Eastward as their 
Wharf's now Extend, To be held in Common between them For Ever. Also I 
give & devise unto my Son Jonathan Penrose & to liis Heirs & Assigns 
for Ever, all those my Lots of Ground 'on the West Side of Front Street, 
aforesd Containing in breadth on sd Front Street fifty seven feet or there- 
abouts, and on Second Street Continued Southward One hundred & Six 
feet or thereabouts, bounded Eastward by sd Front Street, Northward partly 
by a twenty foot Alley, & Westward with sd Second Street with the appur- 
tenances, Moreover I give & devise unto my sd Son Jonathan & to his 
Heirs & Assigns for Ever All that my undivided moiety or Equal half part of 
a Wooden Tenement & Lot or Lots of Ground on the West side of Second 
Street Continued Northward beyond the City of Philadelphia Containing in 
Breadth thirty eight feet or thereabouts & in length or depth fifty feet or there- 
abouts which I hold in Common with William Coats. And as for & concern- 
ing the Rest & Residue of my Lands in Wiccacoe, or Moyamensing Township, 
which I purchased in Common with PhiHp Hulbeart, & since devided, my five 
acres of land in Passyunck, which I purchased of Isaac Roberts, And all other 
my Real Estate Whatsoever or Wheresoever, my mind & Will is, that the Same 
Shall be Equally divided between my sd five sons their Respective Heirs & 
Assigns for Ever, when & as soon, but not before, as my Son Isaac Shall attain 
the age of twenty one years. And in the mean time my Executors hereinafter 
named Shall receive the rents, issues & profits thereof for the use and benefit 
of my sd Five Sons part & share alike Provided always nevertheless that if my 
beloved Wife Sarah Shall be minded or desirous to live & Dwell in the Mes- 
suage or Tenement herein before devised unto my sd Son Isaac, that then & 
in such Case She my sd Wife Shall have the Use of the same Messuage With 
that part of the Lot to the Westward thereof She paying unto my Son Isaac 
Twelve pounds yearly for so long time as she Shall think proper to Live therein, 
Or if my sd Wife Shall incline to build a Brick Tenement of Two Stories high, 
with a Cellar underneath on to the North Eastermost part of my sd Son Jona- 

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SECOND GENERATION. 



than's Lot on the West side of Front Street aforesd for herself to live in, then in 
that Case such Tenement Shall be accordingly Erected, and she Shall have & 
Enjoy the same with a piece of the sd Lot of about Sixteen feet in Front by about 
One hundred feet in depth, for & during the term of her Natural Life, & after 
her decease the same Tenement & piece of Ground shall Revert unto my Son 
Jonathan his Heirs and Assigns For Ever. Also I give & Bequeath unto my sd 
Wife Sarah freely and absolutely at her own disposal, all my House hold goods, 
Household Stuff Plate & ImpUments of House hold, also all my Wearing 
Apparel & a Horse & Cow, And my Mind Will, Order & Desire is that by 
from or out of my timber Stuff Shipwrights Stock, Utensils, Impliments & 
appurtenances belonging to my Trade, and by & from the Services & Labour 
of my apprentices & Negrows, and out of the profits arising by The vessel I am 
now Building or any other Vessel that may be set up, during the Minority of my 
Son James who shall Carry on my Trade until his full age, my Executors 
hereinafter named, or the Survivors or Survivor of them Shall in the first Place 
run out & Extend a pier or Wharf at the South East end of my sd Son Sam- 
uel's lot of Twenty eight feet in breadth by eighty five or ninety feet into Dela- 
ware for the Use of him my sd Son Samuel And in the Next Place Shall Erect 
& Build, if my Wife Desires it, the Tenement aforesd on my sd Son Jonathan's 
Lot, for her to Live in, And the overplus, if any, arising from my Trade when 
my Son James attains Twenty one years, to go to & be divided in the same 
manner as the residuary part of my Personal Estate is herein after Directed 
But when my Son James attains that Age, he shall have my Negro Man Peter, 
and then my Son Thomas shall have my Negro Man named Abraham, And I 
Nominate constitute & appoint my sd Wife Sarah, my Trusty faithful & 
esteemed friend Joseph Richardson of the City of Philada, Merchant, & my 
two Sons Thomas & James to be Executors of this my Last Will & Testament. 
And I give and Bequeath unto him my sd Executor Joseph Richardson his Ex- 
ecutors & Administrators all & Singular the rest residue and remainder of my 
Goods Wares, Merchandize ships. Vessels, Monies, Chattels, Effects and 
Personal Estate, whatsoever or wheresoever Upon Special Trust and Confi- 
dence, nevertheless & to the uses Intents & Purposes hereinafter mentioned, 
declared & expressed, that is to say. To put & place out Twelve hundred and 
fifty pounds part thereof, at Interest upon Land Security in the City and County 
of Philada, and the Interest thereof yearly to pay unto my sd Wife, Sarah, for 
& During the term of her Natural Life and after her Decease to pay & divide 
the sd Principal sum of twelve hundred and fifty pounds unto & among my sd 
five sons part & share aUke, And upon this further trust & Confidence that he 
the sd Joseph Richardson his Executors & Admins, shall pay the following 
Legacies, to wit: Unto my Son Thomas, Four Hundred pounds; unto my 
Son James, Four hundred pounds; unto my Son Samuel, Five hundred and 
Seventy-five pounds, and unto my son Jonathan, Eight hundred and Twenty- 
five pounds, to be paid unto them Severally & respectively, as they sever- 
ally & respectively attain the age of Twenty one years. And in the meantime 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



to be put & place out at Interest by the sd Joseph Richardson, his Executors 
or Admins, for the benefit & Use of my sd sons respectively. But if it Shall 
happen that the sd residum of my personal Estate Shall fall Short of or be insuf- 
ficient in paying such Legacies unto my sd sons, then in that Case one fifth Part 
of such deficiency shall be Deducted from & taken out of their several Legacies 
aforesd, And if it Shall happen that there be more than sufficient to Answer the 
purposes aforesd, the overplus Shall be Equally divided among my children, 
And my Mind & Will further is that if it shall happen the Security or Securities 
by him, the sd Joseph Richardson to be taken for any Monies by him to be placed 
at Interest Shall prove defective nevertheless the sd Joseph Richardson shall 
not be Accountable, And it is my desire that the Ship Britannia, wherein I am 
Concerned Shall proceed on her now intended Voyage. And all other Vessels 
and Ships wherein I am concerned shall proceed on one other Voyage, at the 
end whereof I direct that they be sold to my Executors, and in the meantime 
to make and Cause to be made full Insurance on the sd Vessels. Also my Will 
is that my Wife shall receive twenty five pounds a year from out of each of my 
two Sons, Isaac & Jonathan's Estate till they attain the Age of fifteen years 
respectively, for their Maintenance, &c., and fifteen pounds a year from each 
of their Estates and also fifteen pounds a year from the Estate of my Son Samuel 
until they respectively attain the age of twenty one years, for their Cloathing & 
Schooling and what I have herein before given my sd Wife is and Shall be taken 
in lieu of & as full compensation & Satisfaction for her Dower or Thirds in my 
Estate, both real and personal and I declare it to be my Will that if either of 
my Sons Shall happen to dye under the Age of twenty one years & without 
Lawful Issue, then the Estate both real and Personal of such so dying Shall go to 
& be Equally divided beween the survivor or survivors of them my sd Sons, 
their & his Heirs & Assigns for Ever part & Share aUke. 

"And I revoke all former Wills & Testaments by me made & do declare 
this only to be my Last Will & Testament, In Witness whereof, I, the sd Thomas 
Penrose, the Testator, have set my hand & seal the Eighth Day of November 
in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty-seven. 

"Thomas Penrose. 



" Signed, Sealed, Published & Declared by the sd Thomas Penrose the 
Testator, for & as his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us, who have 
hereunto Subscribed our names as Witnesses of the same, in his presence & at 
his request. The Testator first giving unto his son James, when he attains 
full age, all his apprentices & all the Tools of his Trade hereby desiring James 
to take care of & be Kind to the apprentices & compleat them in the Knowledge 
of the Trade. 

" Barthw Penrose -i 

"Lester Falkner > Witnesses." 

"Jno. Riely j 

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SECOND GENERATION. 



Mr. Penrose was an Episcopalian, and was actively identified 
with Christ Church, and took a prominent part in the founding of 
St. Peter's Church — the second Episcopal church in Philadel- 
phia. He signed the petition to the Penns asking for a lot of 
ground on which to build an edifice for the latter church, and 
when the lot, at Third and Pine Streets, was granted for that 
purpose, he was named in the deed of grant as one of the trustees 
of the property, but did not live to see the building erected. 

He married, 21 October, 1731, Sarah, daughter of John 
Coats * by his wife Mary Heele. Mrs. Penrose died, 7 July, 
1777, aged 63 years. She married (2) i March, 1763, Captain 
Lester Falkner, who died 8 August, 1766, and she married 
(3), 24 April, 1770, Anthony Duche. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

28. Bartholomew Penrose,^ born 11 August, 1732; died 11 January, 

1736-37- 

29. Thomas Penrose,^ born 22 January, 1733-34; died 28 November, 

1815; married Ann Dov/ding. 

30. John Penrose,^ born 9 April, 1736; buried 16 August, 1747. 

31. James Penrose,^ born 23 February 1737-38; died 7 September, 1771; 

married Sarah Biddle. 

32. Mary Penrose,^ born 10 January, 1740; died 15 February, 1740. 

33. Samuel Penrose,^ born n November, 1742; died in 1796; married (i) 

Ann Fleeson; (2) Sarah Moulder. 

34. Bartholomew Penrose,^ born 6 September, 1745; died 3 September, 

1746. 

35. William Penrose,^ buried 10 October, 1749. He is called in Christ 

Church records "son of Thomas," but is'; not named in the family 
records, and it is suggested that he may have been a son of Bartholo- 
mew Penrose, Jr. 

♦John Coats was a brick-manufacturer at Philadelphia, and died there, i6 March, 1760 
aged 76 years. He married Mary, daughter of Warwick and Dorothy Heele (now Hale). Mary 
wife of John Coats, died 10 September, 1752, aged 63 years, and both she and her husband were 
buried in Christ Church burying-ground. Mr. Coats, in his will dated 7 December, 1734, names 
children; Warwick, Isaac, Rebecca Shute, Abraham, John, Jane Knox, Sarah Penrose, and 
Mary Dutton, and Hannah Dennis, and sons-in-law Richard Dennis, Thomas Penrose, and 
Thomas Shute. The son Warwick Coats was a ship-builder, and built the gunboat Burke 
for the Pennsylvania Navy in the Revolution, and was the father of Captain Warwick Coats, 
Jr., who commanded a company of Philadelphia troops in the Revolution. Mary Coats, eldest 
daughter of Warwick, Sr., married Thomas Plumsted, son of Honorable William Plumsted, 
who was three times mayor of Philadelphia. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



36. Isaac Penrose, ^ born i March, 1746-47; died 16 January, 1784; 

married (i) Cassandra Hall ; (2) Ann 

37. Benjamin Penrose,^ born 30 October, 1749; died 30 October, 1750, 

according to family records ; but Christ Church records note his burial 
under date of 24 August, 1751. 

38. Jonathan Penrose,^ born 10 July, 1752; died i April, 1801; married 

Ann Rowan. 




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THIRD GENERATION. 




13. Joseph Mather,' son of Richard Mather 
by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was bom at 
Cheltenham, Philadelphia (now Montgom- 
ery) County, Pennsylvania, 28 September, 
1728; died there, 12 March, 1810; married, 
3 September, 1756, EHzabeth, daughter of 
Edward Miller, and widow of John Barge. 

Issue : 

39. Richard Mather,* born 6 July, 1757; died young. 

40. Sarah Mather,* twin of Richard, born 6 July, 1757; married, 5 May, 

1779, Isaac Shoemaker,* who dying shortly afterwards, she married 
Hugh Evans, by whom she had issue: (41) Thomas Evans. ^ (42) 
Joseph M. Evans.^ (43) Wilbur Evans.^ (44) Thomas Evans,* 
the first Thomas having died in infancy. 
45. Ann Mather,* married Edward Ambler, by whom she had issue: 
(46) Isaac Ambler.^ (47) Elizabeth Ambler.* (48) William 
Ambler.* (49) Ann Ambler.* (50) Andrew Ambler.* (51) 
Edward Ambler.* (52) Sarah Ambler.* (53) Hannah Ambler.* 
(54) Ann Elizabeth Ambler.* 

14. Bartholomew Mather,' son of Richard Mather by his 
wife Sarah Penrose, ^ was born at Cheltenham, Philadelphia 
(now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, 15 January, 1729-30; 
married, 19 November, 1754, Sarah, daughter of Thomas 
Livezey; died 21 June, 1795- Mr. Mather was a wheelwright, 
and landowner, and was taxed with a one-half interest in a saw 
and grist mill. 

Issue, born at Cheltenham : 

55. Thomas Mather,* born 22 June, 1756; married, i July, 1779, Rachel 
daughter of Isaac Leech, of Cheltenham, and great-granddaughter of 
Toby Leech, Sr., Esq. They had issue, three children : (56) Isaac 
Mather.* (57) Martha Mather.* (58) Bartholomew Mather,* 
who married, 14 April, 1808, Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary 
Shoemaker. 

59. Richard Mather,* born 31 May, 1764; married, Sarah,t daughter of 
Jonathan Thomas, and had ten children: (60) Bartholomew 
Mather.* (61) Thomas Mather.* (62) Penrose Mather.* 

* Son of John Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, 
t Sister of the wife of Benjamin, uncle of Richard Mather. 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



(63) George Mather.^ (64) Martha Mather.^ (65) Lydia C. 
Mather.* (66) Sarah Mather.* (67) Ann T. Mather.* (68) 
McIlvaine Mather.* (69) Robert Mather.* 

15. Elizabeth Mather,^ daughter of Richard Mather by 
his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was bom at Cheltenham, Philadelphia 
(now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, 29 February, 1731-2 ; 
died 26 December, 1781; married, 11 April, 1756, Nathan 
Thomas; born 1721; died 1796. 

Issue : 

70. Rachel Thomas/ born 21 July, 1757; died unmarried. 

71. Sarah Thomas/ born 5 February, 1759; died unmarried. 

72. Isaac Thomas,* born 1762; died 7 January, 1830; married, 19 October, 

1786, Ann, daughter of John Roberts. 

73. Joseph Thomas,* born 20 June, 1760; died May, 1798; married, 20 

May, 1790, Rebecca Cottman. 

74. Jacob Thomas,* born 20 January, 1768; died 14 October, 1854; married, 

28 April, 1793, Ann Johnson, by whom he had nine children, the 
youngest of whom (75) Lucretia Eleanor Thomas,* married as 
second husband, William Hart Carr and by him had (76) Joseph- 
ine Stokes Carr,* of Philadelphia, who has taken a deep interest in 
collecting material relating to the Mather family. 

77. Nathan Thomas,* born 30 October, 1770. 

78. John Thomas,* born 22 March, 1774; married, 29 March, 1810, Eliza- 

beth Hart. 

79. Elizabeth Thomas,* born 20 May, 1778; died 21 January, 1863; 

married, 12 December, 1799, Samuel Ruth. 

18. Benjamin Mather,' son of Richard Mather by his wife 
Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Cheltenham, Philadelphia (now 
Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, 15 November, 1737; 
married, 17 June, 1778, Ann, daughter of Jonathan Thomas, of 
Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia. Mr. Mather resided 
in Cheltenham, and was a member of Abington Monthly Meet- 
ing, where his marriage took place. 

Issue, born at Cheltenham : 

80. Jonathan Mather,* born 8 August, 1779; married Elizabeth, 

daughter of Thomas Tyson, of Edge Hill, Montgomery County, and 

had issue: (81) Sarah T. Mather * who married Newlin Schofield. 

(82) Mary Ann Mather.* (83) Thomas T. Mather * who married 

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THIRD GENERATION. 



Rachel Nicholson. (84) Hannah Mather.^ (85) Eleanor 
Mather.^ 
86. Sarah Mather/ born 13 October, 1781; married, 17 November, 

1808, Jonathan Thomas, and had issue : (87) Ann Thomas.^ (88) 
Richard Thomas.^ (89) Hannah Thomas.^ (90) Jane Thomas.^ 
(91) Elizabeth Thomas.' 

92. Richard Mather,* born 26 September, 1783; married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Isaac Longstreth. Issue: (93) Ann Mather.' (94) 
Charles L. Mather.' (95) Phineas Mather.' (96) Susanna 
Mather.' (97) Benjamin Mather.' (98) Sarah B. Mather.' 
(99) Joseph Mather.' 
100. Benjamin Mather,* born 5 March, 1786; married, 14 December, 

1809, Catharine, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Rowland, and had 
issue: (loi) Mary Mather.' (102) Rowland Mather.' (103) 
Ann Mather.' (104) Richard Mather.' (105) Elizabeth R. 
Mather.' (106) Sarah R. Mather.' (107) Benjamin Mather.' 
(108) Sarah K. Mather.' 

109. Joseph T. Mather,* born 4 July, 1793; married Ann Williams, 
daughter of Dr. John Moore, of Philadelphia. Issue: (no) Cath- 
arine M. Mather.' (m) Ann T. Mather.' (112) Emily 
R. Mather.' (113) Hannah P. Mather.' 

20. Isaac Mather,^ son of Richard Mather by his wife Sarah 
Penrose,^ was born at Cheltenham, Philadelphia (now Mont- 
gomery) County, Pennsylvania, 9 September, 1741; died 4 
December, 1808; married at Abington Meeting, 17 May, 1770, 
Mary, daughter of Joshua Morris, of Abington ; born 19 Feb- 
ruary, 1748-49. 

Issue : 

114. Susanna Mather *; died in infancy. 

115. Mary Mather *; married one Trimble, by whom she had issue. 

116. Joseph Mather*; married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Williams, 

by whom she had issue. 

117. John Mather*; died 8 July, 1865, aged 90 years; married Martha 

T., daughter of Zebulon Potts. Issue: (ii8) Isaac Mather.' 
(119) Edward Mather.' (120) John Mather.' (121) Martha 
Mather.' (122) Daniel Mather.' (123) Rebecca Mather.' 
(124) Elizabeth H. Mather.' (125) Charles Mather.' (126) 
Jane Mather.' (127) Ann Mather. 

128. Sarah Mather*; died in infancy. 

129. Joshua Mather*; died, in infancy. 

130. Charles Mather,* born 20 February, 1784; died 12 November, 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1S30; married 12 May, 1807, Jane,* daughter of Job and Mary Rob- 
erts; born I March, 1785; died i February, 1847. Issue: (131) Job 
R. Mather.^ (132) Mary M. Mather.* (133) Hannah B. 
Mather.* (134) Jane Mather.** (135) Susanna Mather.*! 
(136) Letitia Mather.* (137) Charles Mather.* (138) Lydia 
Mather. 

22. Hannah Mather,^ daughter of Richard Mather by his 
wife Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Cheltenham, Philadelphia 
(now Montgomery) County, 12 July, 1747 ; married at Abington 
Meeting, 21 May, 1778, Jonathan Jarrett, of Warminster, 
Bucks County, son of John Jarrett of that place. 

Issue: 

139. John Jarrett,* born in 1779; married Elizabeth, daughter of Jona- 
than Lukens, and had issue: (140) Jonathan Jarrett.* (141) Ann 
Jarrett.* (142) Jane Jarrett.* (143) Mary Jarrett.* (144) 
Hannah Jarrett.* (145) Tacy Jarrett.* (146) William L. 
Jarrett.* 

147. Richard Jarrett,* married Gainor, daughter of Samuel Penrose % 
by his wife Sarah Roberts, and had issue: (148) Hannah Jarrett,* 
died young. (149) Hannah Jarrett.* (150) Sarah P. Jarrett.* 
(151) Samuel J.arrett.* (152) Abel P. Jarrett.* (153) Eliza- 
beth Jarrett.* (154) Rebecca Jarrett.* (155) David Jar- 
rett.* (156) Morris P. Jarrett.* 

157. ISA.\c Jarrett,* married Mary Lukens. 

158. Jonathan Jarrett,* married Hannah Lukens. 

23. Colonel Joseph Penrose,^ eldest child and only son of 
Bartholomew Penrose,^ Jr., by his wife Mary Kirll, was born at 
Philadelphia, in 1738, and died 15 February, 1784. He was 
prominently identified with the Revolutionary cause. In 1775 
he was chosen second-major of the First Battalion Bucks County 
Associators, and on 4 January, 1776, he was elected by Congress 

*Jane Mather 5 was bom 24 March, 1817, and married, 6 March, 1838, Benjamin G. 
Foulke, Esq. For an account of his ancestry and their descendants, see "Old Richland Fami- 
lies," pages 154-5. Their son. Job Roberts Foulke, Esq., is the Trust Officer of the Provident 
Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia. 

t Susanna Mather,5 married, 17 November, 1844, Samuel J. Levick, a prominent Quaker 
minister, whose son, Lewis J. Levick, resides at Philadelphia, and is president of the Crew Levick 
Co. 

J Samuel Penrose was of the Bucks County family of Penroses, whose connection, if any, 
with the Penroses of Philadelphia has not been ascertained. 

30 



THIRD GENERATION. 



lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion, under 
Colonel Robert Magaw. This battalion was recruited under 
resolution of Congress of 9 December, 1775, for the term of one 
year. In June, 1776, it was ordered to New York, where it 
arrived later in that month, and immediately became employed 
in the construction of Fort Washington. The regiment later 
participated in the movements of the army in and about New 
York, but finally came to disaster, in November, 1776, at the 
capture of Fort Washington by the British. Prior to this event, 
however. Congress had taken notice of Colonel Penrose's merits 
as an officer, and promoted him to the colonelcy of the Tenth 
Pennsylvania Continental Line, which regiment was raised 
under a resolution of Congress, of 16 September, 1776. Colonel 
Penrose continued in such command until 7 March, 1777, when 
he tendered his resignation. He was a high-spirited man, and 
was moved to give up his commission because of what he deemed 
an injustice done him in a matter of rank, as appears from his 
letter, which reads: 

"Philadelphia Barracks, March 7, 1777. 

"Gentlemen: The Field Officers Rank being settled, and Colonel Johnston 
taking rank above me, who has not been appointed to a Regiment above Ten 
days, and most of the Council no that when I first came to Philadelphia from 
Camp, I offered to give the Regiment up to Colonel Johnston, and it was not 
excepted of — and now to be commanded by him, is what I cannot think of 
putting up with as an officer. You'll please to consider the Tenth Regiment 
as being without a Colonel. Gentlemen, I am much obliged to you for the 
honour you did me, in appointed me to the Regiment, in the beginning, and shall 
be ever acknowledg'd by your very humble servant. 

"Joseph Penrose. 

"To the Honorable President and Council." 

Colonel Penrose was one of the pall-bearers at the funeral of 
Colonel Hazlett, and Captain Anthony Wayne Morris, who fell 
at the battle of Princeton. He was a man of considerable 
estate, and was ready to risk not only his life in the cause of In- 
dependence, but his estate as well, as is shown by his action just 
prior to his appointment at the head of the Tenth Pennsylvania 

31 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Continental Line. The State was at that time greatly in need 
of money to assist in the work of obtaining enlistments for her 
Continental regiments ; and, to meet the exigency, a number of 
prominent citizens came forward and loaned money to the 
State, the terms of their subscriptions reading thus : 

"We, the subscribers, anxious to promote the public service, and especially 
to recruit the line of this State with Soldiers to be raised during the War, do, 
in order to provide a Fund for that purpose, agree to lend to David Rittenhouse, 
Esquire, Treasurer of the State, the several sums of Money to our respective 
Names, to be repaid in the same specie of money as advanced by us, with in- 
terest." * 

Colonel Penrose subscribed ;^iooo to the loan, there being but 
one larger subscription. He was a member of the Gloucester 
Fox Hunting Club, which organization he joined in 1768. He 
appears to have had the following 

Issue : 

159. Margaret Penrose,* married, i May, 1797, Edward Campbell. 

160. Elizabeth Penrose.* 

161. Abraham Penrose,* died circa 1801, leaving a widow, Mary, and 

daughter Margaretta. 

24. Sarah Penrose,^ daughter of Bartholomew Penrose, 
Jr.,^ by his wife Mary Kirll, was born at Philadelphia, circa 
1743; died 21 March, 1791; married, 16 October, 1767, Abra- 
ham Robinson, Esq., who was born at Naaman's Creek, New 
Castle County, Delaware, about 1740, and died there, 4 March, 
1787 ; son of Thomas Robinson, Esq., by his wife Sarah Sharp. 
In a deed of 22 January, 1772, Abraham Robinson is styled "of 
Philadelphia, merchant," and was probably then engaged in 
business in that city, but residing at his seat on Naaman's Creek. 
He was prominent in the pubHc affairs of Delaware. In 1774 
he became a justice of the peace for New Castle County, and in 
1776 was elected one of the representatives of that county to the 
first Legislature of Delaware, and a member of the Committee 

* Pennsylvania Archives, sec. ser. i, 620. 
32 



General Anthony Wayne. 




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THIRD GENERATION. 



of Safety. He was one of those appointed to sign the Continen- 
tal Bills of Credit, and in 1777 was commissioned Fourth Justice 
of the Court of Common Pleas and Orphan's Court for New 
Castle County, and in 1781, Third Justice.* 

Issue : 

162. Thomas Robinson/ born 29 July, 1768; died 17 May, 1847; married 

Catharine Graham. 

163. Mary Robinson,* born 18 November, 1770; died in 1838; married 

James Mcllvaine. 

164. Margaret Robinson,* born 1 September, 1772; died in 1833. 

165. Joseph Penrose Robinson,* born 26 October, 1774. 

166. Sarah Penrose Robinson,* born 16 March, 1776; died 11 June, 1846; 

married Thomas Perkins. 

167. Jane Robinson,* born 24 November, 1777; died in 1855 or 1856, 

W'ithout issue; married Captain William Graham, brother of 
Catharine Graham above named. Captain Graham vi^as a prominent 
member of the Delaware County bar, and an ofi&cer in the Penn- 
sylvania militia, serving in the Whiskey Insurrection. He was born 
in 1766, and died in 1821. 

168. Anthony Wayne Robinson,* born 17 September, 1780; died 30 March, 

1840; married Sarah Adams. 

169. Penrose Robinson,* born 15 November, 1782; died in 1846; married 

Janet Bayly. 

170. Juliana Robinson,* born 5 October, 1784; died 16 January, 1867; 

married David Hoopes. 

27. Mary Penrose,^ daughter of Bartholomew Penrose, Jr.,^ 
by his wife Mary Kirll, was born at Philadelphia in 1749 ; died at 
" Waynesborough, " Chester County, Pennsylvania, 18 April, 
1793. She married, 25 March, 1766, Major-General Anthony 
Wayne; born at "Waynesborough," i January, 1745; died at 
Presque Isle, Erie County, Pennsylvania, 15 December, 1796. 
General Wayne was a son of Captain Isaac Wayne by his wife 
Elizabeth Iddings. He was educated at the Philadelphia 
Academy, and became a land surveyor. Upon his marriage, he 
settled on a farm in his native county, but continued to follow 

* "General George Washington was a frequent guest at his house (at Naaman's Creek) 
and it is said that on the occasion of one of these visits he was so much pleased with a 
new seedling pear that it was named for him, and that thus originated the celebrated Wash- 
ington pear." (Scharfi's " History of Delaware," 908.) 

3 33 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Wayne in command. Wayne's most distinguished single service 
was in the storming and capture of Stony Point, on 15 July, 1779, 
for which achievement Congress voted him a gold medal, and 
the thanks of that body, a similar testimonial being given him by 
the assembly of his native State. 

On I January, 1781, 1,300 men of the Pennsylvania Line 
mutinied ; but General Wayne, by his tact, arranged the matter 
peaceably, to the advantage of the government and the satis- 
faction of the troops. Soon afterward he was sent by Washing- 
ton to join Lafayette, who was then operating against Lord 
CornwalHs in Virginia. At Jamestown Ford, the British ap- 
peared to be falling back to avoid Lafayette, and Wayne attacked 
by Lafayette's orders, but found that he was confronted by the 
entire British force. Unable to retreat, he at once charged the 
enemy, and fell back after disconcerting a projected manoeuvre 
against Lafayette. This action at Green Springs on 6 July, 
1 781, demonstrated Wayne's great abihty as a general, in that 
he turned almost a positive defeat into a success. 

General Wayne was actively engaged in the investment and 
capture of Yorktown, where the first parallel was opened by him 
and General James CUnton with six regiments on 6 October, 
1 78 1, and five days later the second parallel was begun by the 
Pennsylvania and Maryland troops, covered by two battaUons 
under the command of Wayne. In the attack on the 14th, he 
supported the French troops with his Pennsylvania regiments. 
After the surrender he was sent to join General Nathaniel Greene 
in SouthiCarolina, and on doing so, was given command of a 
small force and sent to Georgia to rescue that State from the 
enemy. In this he was successful after a campaign of only a few 
weeks, in which he fought three battles, being victorious in each. 
His achievements here won for him the gratitude of the people of 
that State, and moved the legislature of Georgia to pass a resolu- 
tion complimenting him on his campaign, and to appropriate 
4000 guineas for the purchase of an estate for him in any part of 

36 



THIRD GENERATION. 



the State he might select. General Wayne named the locality, 
and eight hundred and forty acres of land was secured to him. 

When Charleston, South CaroHna, was evacuated by the 
British, 14 December, 1782, General Wayne took possession of 
that city, which was the last military service he performed in the 
Revolutionary War. On 10 October, 1783, he was brevetted 
major-general, about which time he returned to Pennsylvania 
and resumed civil life. 

In 1783 and 1784, General Wayne was a member of the Coun- 
cil of Censors, and from 1784 until 1786 was a member of the 
Assembly. In 1787 he was a member of the Convention called 
in Pennsylvania to ratify the Constitution of the United States, 
and was an active champion of its adoption. He was elected 
from Georgia to Congress, and served from 21 October, 1791, to 
21 March, 1792, when his seat was contested and Congress de- 
clared it vacant, the House of Representatives declaring all the 
election proceedings void and ordering that a new election take 
place. General Wayne declined to be a candidate at the new 
election. 

In April, 1792, General Wayne was appointed by President 
Washington commander-in-chief of the army of the United 
States, with the rank of major-general. His services from this 
time forward are thus recounted in the sketch of his hfe printed 
in " Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography" : 

"Certain of the Indian tribes of the northwest, instigated by the British, 
refused to cease hostilities after the peace of 1783, and previous attempts by 
Gen. Josiah Harmer and Gen. Arthur St. Clair at subjugating the savages 
had failed, Wayne collected an adequate force, and, conscious that failure in 
negotiating with the Indians would be followed by immediate hostilities on the 
frontiers, spent more than a year in drilling the troops and training them for 
the pecuhar service for which they were required. In the autumn of 1793 he 
marched into the northwest, and near Greenville, Ohio, built a stockade which 
he called Fort Recovery. He pushed on during the following summer through 
the wilderness toward Maumee River, and at its junction with the Auglaize he 
built Fort Adams, as an intermediate post. In August he went down the 
Maumee with 1,000 men, and encamped near a British post at the foot of the 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Maumee rapids, called Fort Miami. Here Gen. Wayne, with a force ample to 
destroy the Indians in spite of British influence, offered them peace if they 
would lay down their weapons. On their refusal he advanced to the head of 
the rapids, and on 20 August, at Fallen Timbers, attacked and defeated the 
Indians. Almost all the dead warriors were found with British arms. After 
laying their country waste he moved up to the junction of St. Mary's and St. 
Joseph's rivers, where he built a strong fortification which he called Fort Wayne. 
He spent the winter in Greenville, where, on 3 August, 1795, was signed a 
treaty with the Indians, in which twelve tribes participated. A lasting peace 
followed, and a large territory was acquired by the United States. Wayne 
returned on a visit to Pennsylvania, and was appointed sole commissioner to 
treat with the Indians of the northwest, and to take possession of all the forts 
that had been held by the British in that territory ; but, while descending Lake 
Erie from Detroit, he died from an attack of the gout. Although Washington 
called him 'prudent,' Wayne's une.xpected success in perilous expeditions won 
for him his more popular appellation of 'Mad Anthony Wayne.' The title 
of ' Dandy Wayne ' was also applied to him, owing to his constant attention to 
dress, and in one of his letters to Washington he expressed himself in favor of 
an elegant uniform and soldierly appearance in preference to poorly clad troops 
with a greater amount of ammunition. He was called 'Black Snake' by the 
Indians, perhaps because that reptile will attack any other species and rarely 
gets the worst of an encounter. After he defeated them in 1794 he was given 
the name of 'Wind' or 'Tornado,' because 'he was exactly like a hurricane, 
that drives and tears and prostrates everything before it.' His body was re- 
moved from Presque Isle in 1809 by liis son, and buried in Radnor churchyard 
in his native county, where the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati caused 
a marble monument to be erected, which was dedicated with appropriate cere- 
monies on 4 July of that year. His portrait was painted by Charles Wilson 
Peale and by John Trumbull." 

After the death of his wife, General Wayne was reported to be 
engaged to the beautiful Miss Vining, of Delaware. 

Issue : 

171. Margaretta Wayne, ^ born 1770; died 13 March, 181 o; married 

William Richardson Atlee. 

172. Isaac Wayne,^ born 1768; died 25 October, 1852; married Elizabeth 

Smith. 

29. Thomas Penrose,' son of Thomas Penrose ^ by his wife 
Sarah Coats, was born at Philadelphia, 22 January, 1733-34; 
died there, 28 November, 181 5. He was a ship-builder and 
merchant, being in early life in partnership with his brother, 

38 




Thomas Penrose, from Portrait in Wax, now in Possession of Charles 
Penrose Keith, Esq. (No. 29). 



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r ill Greenville, where, on 3 August, 1795, w 
: 'icins, in which twelve iiibr naiu'j'oated. A la 
jnd a large territory w.i vited States. Wayne 

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treat with the Indians of the north \ n of all the forts 

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Issue : 

171. a 1770; died 13 March, i8ro;. married 

172. . tober, 1852; married Elizabeth 

29. Tho Penrose ' by Lis wife 

Sarah Coat... ■..,■...., 22 J^'v^ir-.;: ,. > . .^,. 

died there, 28 He was a 

merchant, being in early iite )n partnership brother, 

3^ 



THIRD GENERATION. 



James Penrose. He was prominent in his day, and manifested 
a deep interest in public affairs. In 1761 he became a contrib- 
utor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and from 1786 until 1798 
was one of the managers of that institution, and he is said to 
have been the founder of what are known in Philadelphia as the 
"Soup Houses," estabhshed for the supplying of soup to the 
poor.* On 5 April, 1762, England's declaration of war against 
Spain was formally proclaimed at Philadelphia, and the minutes 
of the Provincial Council of that date thus note the incident : 

"At 4 o'clock His Honour, the Governor, being attended at his House by 
the Council, Mayor, Recorder, Alderman, Common Council, Sheriff, and his 
officers, &c., proceeded to the Court House, where the declaration of War 
against Spain was proclaimed, and the Governor's Proclamation read by the 
Secretary, with the usual solemnity, in the presence of a vast concourse of 
people." 

Governor Hamilton's proclamation contained this item: 

^' And Whereas, His Majesty hath been pleased to order that Letters of 
Marque of Commissions to privateers be granted in the usual manner, to dis- 
tress and annoy the Enemy, in their Settlements, Trade & Commerce, I do 
invite all his Majesty's subjects under my Government, to receive the Benefit 

* ' ' Thomas Penrose was the originator of what are now known as the ' Soup Houses,' or 
'Kitchens' that in winter supply soup and bread to the poor. While he stiU carried on his busi- 
ness of ship-building, occurred the most severe winter ever known up to that time (date for- 
gotten), in Philadelphia. I cannot ascertain what year, but am under the impression it was 
in the last decade of the eighteenth century. 

' ' Outdoor work was impossible, the river so deeply frozen over for many weeks (one account 
said months) that the ' wood shallops' from New Jersey and Delaware could not sail up the river 
with the necessary supply of firewood and charcoal. Anthracite was then unknown, and of 
course there was great suffering among the working classes and the very poor, who usually lived 
on charity. Mr. Penrose sympathized deeply with their misery, and on reflection, decided that 
the most effectual way of supplying food to the needy near his home at Penn and Shippen Streets, 
was to have the great glue kettle used in his shipyard thoroughly cleansed, and a large quantity 
of what in old times was called 'a good stomachy soup' prepared daily in his shipyard. It was 
made of fresh and some salt meat, potatoes, beans, a few onions, dry bread crumbs, httle dough 
balls, plenty of seasoning and pot-herbs, and a good portion of this with a suitable ration of brown 
bread was regularly served to his suffering neighbors with most satisfactory results. But of 
course no one person could supply all the needy, so others followed his example, the public Soup 
House of the old District of Southwark was started, and having finally closed his shipyard about 
that time, he presented the big glue kettle to that institution, and I know that for many years 
after his decease that substantial piece of ironmongery was used for several months every winter, 
to the great satisfaction of his only surviving son, Charles Penrose." t 
t This note was contributed by Miss Annie Eliza Pennock. ,; 

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of this His Majesty's order, by fitting out such Privateers, which may not 
only be greatly for his Majesty's service, but very advantageous to the adven- 
turers themselves, and I do hereby declare that I will most readily give 
all the Encouragement & Assistance that in me lyes, to every such under- 
taking." * 

Four days after the proclamation, Thomas and James Pen- 
rose began the construction of a warship, with a keel of ninety- 
five feet and beam of thirty-two feet, and in seventy-two days 
the vessel was launched. She was named "Hero," and put 
in command of Samuel ap Owen, with a crew of two hundred 
men, and an armament of twenty-four nine-pounders, and 
went forth against the Spanish, capturing several prizes. 

In 1765 Mr. Penrose became one of the signers to the 
historic "Non-Importation Agreement," and in 1766 he was 
chosen one of the port wardens of Philadelphia, which position 
he held until the Revolution. On 19 May, 1774, the famous 
Paul Revere, of Boston, arrived in Philadelphia, bringing the 
news of the passage by Parhament of the bill closing the port 
of Boston and asking support from Philadelphia for the people 
of the former city. A call was issued for a pubhc meeting, 
at the City Tavern on the following evening, which was 
attended by a large number of patriotic citizens. John Dickin- 
son, author of the "Farmer's Letters," was made chairman 
of the meeting, and a committee of correspondence, of which 
Thomas Penrose was a member, was appointed to write to 
the people of Boston assuring them of sympathy, commending 
their firmness, declaring their cause that of the colonies, and 
promising to stand fast for the right. The committee took 
immediate action in such direction, and later, arranged for 
a mass-meeting at the "State House Yard" (Independence 
Square), on 18 June, 1774. The meeting was attended 
by some eight thousand citizens. John Dickinson and 
Thomas WilUng presided, and the meeting selected a new 

* Colonial Records, viii, 706. 
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committee on correspondence, with practical functions of 
large importance. Mr. Penrose was made a member of the 
committee, composed of forty-three of the leading men of 
Philadelphia. One of the first steps taken by the committee 
was towards calling a convention composed of delegates elected 
in the several counties of the Province. Such convention, 
— a noted one in the history of Pennsylvania, — met at Car- 
penter's Hall, Philadelphia, 15 July, following, and remained 
in session six days. Mr. Penrose was a member of this body, 
and was continued on the Committee of Correspondence 
until 5 January, 1775, when it was succeeded by the Council 
of Safety. 

Miss Annie EHza Pennock, of Philadelphia, a great-grand- 
daughter of Thomas Penrose, has furnished the author with 
the following interesting story : 

"While the British and Hessian troops occupied Philadelphia (1777-78), 
the Chaplain of a Hessian regiment was quartered in the house of Thomas 
Penrose, at southeast corner of Penn and Shippen (now Bainbridge) Streets, 
to the intense dismay of the family, especial))' his very neat wife, a notable 
housekeeper of the old-fashioned sort. She fully believed, as did all the Phila- 
delphians, even the Tories, that in manners and customs the Hessians were as 
' dreadful as vnld beasts, if not worse, because they used what little brains they 
had to invent even worse sayings and doings than came instinctively into their 
dirty, ugly heads.' (Quoted from contemporary letter.) But to the great 
relief of the household, the Chaplain — his name is now forgotten and cannot 
be ascertained — proved to be a civilized and very worthy gentleman, who gave 
no trouble, and protected them from the constant abuse and plundering of 
other citizens by the thievish Hesr ian and English soldiers. The latter, though 
bad enough, and much feared, were not nearly so much dreaded as the brutal 
Hessians. His sympathy was soon warmly roused by the courage and suffering 
of the 'American rebels,' though he dared not let Count Donop and other 
Hessian and English commanders know that, and by the time the royal troops 
left Philadelphia, and he was obliged to go with them, a warm friendship had 
grown up between him and Mr. and Mrs. Penrose. He was lodged in the 
second-story front chamber of Thomas Penrose's house at Penn and Shippen 
Streets, and received there all visitors, friends or strangers, 'so that they 
might not discommode the family.' Among them were more than a hundred 
couples (chiefly of the plain people, but some of the better class) who arrived 
to be maiTied. They came to him because all the patriotic clergy had fled 

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from the city, likewise most of the civil magistrates, and many people would 
not be united by the hated royalist (Tory) parsons and 'squires.' He corre- 
sponded with Mr. Penrose after returning to Germany until his death a few 
years later, and my grandfather, Charles Penrose, then a child, could remember 
hearing his parents say his letters were written in very good Enghsh, and so 
'hearty and friendly.' Unfortunately they were accidentally destroyed a few 
years after the war was over. Great was the joy when the English and Hessian 
troops finally sailed away from Pliiladelphia, and the American soldiers marched 
in. The citizens, among them Thomas Penrose and Nancy Dowding his wife, 
with all their relations and friends could once more enjoy their homes, and 
bring forth their valuables from some very queer hiding-places. I have often 
heard that on a sudden alarm in the city (a false report that English troops 
and their savage Indian allies were very near) Mrs. Thomas Penrose had her 
silver tea service (we still have some of it) buried deep under a bed of 'kitchen 
or pot herbs,' planted purposely in a flower-bed in the garden on the south side 
of the Penn Street house. Valuable papers, silver spoons, and other small 
pieces were cautiously packed among the works of the tall old English-made 
eight-day clock now in my house, and still an excellent timepiece, substantial 
enough to last another one hundred and fifty years — it was brought from Eng- 
land in 1752 or '53, for Thomas and Nancy (or Ann) Dowding Penrose, his 
wife." 

Miss Pennock has also furnished the following item, relating 
to the ship "Thomas Penrose," of which Mr. Penrose was 
a part owner : 

"When the time came to launch and name the ship it was ascertained that 
Thomas Willing, the eminent merchant, and other owners of the vessel, had 
employed the eminent wood-carver, William Rush, to carve a life-size bust of 
Mr. Penrose, which they quietly secured to the ship's bow just before she was 
slid down the ways into the Delaware. Mr. Penrose was indignant over the 
bust, although it was an excellent likeness of him. The ship proved a fast 
sailer, and traded for a time between Philadelphia and European ports, but 
after a few years it was captured by the French, in the short war late in the 
eighteenth century between France and the United States. She was pierced 
for cannon, named after a French Admiral, the drab coat and vest, copied from 
the usual attire of Mr. Penrose, painted the naval blue of the French Republic, 
a pair of gilt epaulettes secured on the shoulders, and she became a very suc- 
cessful French privateer, but was finally captured by an Enghsh frigate, while 
cruising in the English channel, and sailed as an English privateer, still retain- 
ing her French name. Some time after the battle of Waterloo she was sold by 
the English government to a private firm. About 1840, Mr. Charles Penrose, 
a son of Thomas Penrose, learned that the ship was still in use, and still staunch 
and sound, and a fast sailer, and, remembering that the portrait bust figure 

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Residence of Thomas Penrose, Southeast Corner of Penn and BJ^IN- 

BRiDGE Streets. The Site is now Covered by the 

Franklin Sugar Refinery. 



OSE FAMILY, 



r of the civil magistrates, and many people would 



x-re written in vt 

L mortunateiy they were accidentally ci .ew 

5 over. Great vf&s the joy when the Engli&i .. . . ,. iJan 

finally sailed away from Philadelphia, and the American soldiers marched 

.. i'he citizens, among them Thomas Penrose and Nancy Dowding his wife, 

with all their relations and friends could once more enjoy their homes, and 

' I have often 

English troops 

" had her 

"kitchen 



tHiaQ ajtA vtMal 10 asKiioD T8AaHTUo2 .aaoavial eamohT "so aowaaiaail 
aHT Ya aaaavoO v/o'/i ei ariS anT .araaaxS aoaiaa 

d^aaja-iail aA-ou2iv3iiavrAJ4'i;.\v;iii:i iiem, leiating 
^mas Penrose," of which Mr. Penrose was 



: of 

- , :• HS 
■ :. Mr. Penrosi 

b- , -. ,,-_ . ;v .;. ,-,f him. _. ., ..vt 

sailer, and tradc' lua and I but 
^*'''"' ■■ ■■■"'- -~\ the shove u-ar .lie in the 
f itates. She was pierced 
ior ca. oat and vest, copied from 
the us - of the French Republic, 
a pair o.. ^ -.e a very suc- 
cessful Fre? frigate, while 
cruising in the i English privateer, still retain- 

in-T >.pr TT,pnr>i , , .. of Waterloo she was sold by 

t to a pri ;t 1840, Mr. Charles Penrose, 

a ;....; 0-. jL!ii.'.ij^5 :--:iose, learn f ''' . ...h 

and sound, and a fast sailer, a; re 



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head was always considered a good likeness of his father, he made an effort, it 
is said, to recover the same, but was a few months too late, for the ship had been 
damaged beyond repair in a collision at sea, and broken up for old timber, and 
the figure-head could not be found." 

Mr. Penrose was identified with St. Peter's Episcopal Church 
until his widowed mother married Anthony Duch^, a relative of 
the Episcopal divine, Reverend Jacob Duche, which marriage, 
it is said, led Mr. Penrose to discontinue his attendance at 
that Church, and to attend Friends' Meeting, although he never 
became a member of the Society of Friends. His pew at St. 
Peter's Church continued in the family until a recent date. He 
- was a man of wealth, and left a large estate. 

Mr. Penrose married (ceremony by Reverend Michael 
Schlatter), 7 July, 1757, Ann, daughter of Joseph Dowding, 
Esq., by his wife Ann Richardson; born 7 September, 1739; 
died 8 September, 1809. Mr. Dowding* was a lawyer, and 

* The following is a copy of a letter written by Joseph Dowding to his parents: 

Kent County on Delaware June gth 1 743. 
Hon^d & Dear Mother 

Your two Letters which Inform me of My Dear Brother Sandys and Sister Rebeccah's Deaths, 
I rec'*. I had heard the melancholy news of both before ye rec* of your Letters, And have been 
often full of Greif upon the Occasion. God has been pleased since to add to my Affliction, by de- 
priving me of a most dear & Virtuous Consort, who the 27th of January last was a year, Departed 
this life, occasioned by her miscarriage being abo' 5 months gone with Child. We were married 
almost four Years before. She was a Vertuous & Religious, Modest & Ingenious, kind and 
AfiEectionate young woman abo* 30 Years of Age, & Truly Amiable both in Body and Mind, 
and having for weeks before some Premonition & Apprehension of her approaching End. She 
bore her Affliction w'" great Patience, & with Humble Resignation & Composure, yeilded 
up her Spirit, into the Hands of the Father of Mercies in hopes of his acceptance for the alone 
Merits of her Saviour. I trust she is happy! She left Behind her a Good Name, and one Dear 
Daughter named Ann, who will be Four Years old if she lives till the 7*^^ of Septem"" next. 
She is a fine fair Child much resembling her Mother both in Feature & Temper. The Lord 
sanctifie these and all our other Afflictions with which he is pleased to exercise us to our Spiritual 
Benefit that we may be the better prepared to follow them to the Eternal State when Our God 
shall please. 

Blessed be his Name that I & my little Dau"^ are in good health, tho' I am often indisposed 
by the unwholesomeness of the climate and the fatigues. M"^. Timothy Hansom on his return 
home, he is my Good Friend and Acquantance, vrith whom I boarded Several Years before 
I married & he has promised to call & see you with this. Please to let me know how my Dear 
Mother and Sisters do & what Children they have &c. I should take a letter kindly from any 
of them. To all whom I desire most affectionately to be remembered the Lord Support you, 
Comfort and direct you. Strengthen your Faith & Confirm your hope and at last bring you & 
yours — to y^ Heavenly City — where is neither Sin nor Sorrow, but Imortal Bliss! & Eternal 
peace and Joy! These shall be my Dailey prayers! — I cannot express the Tender and Affec- 
tionate Sentiments with which my Breast is filled, at this as well as at other times on your Account. 

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in practice in Dover, Kent County, Delaware, where he married 
Ann, daughter of Judge Richard Richardson, of that county, 
by his wife Ann, daughter of John Robinson, He was born 
at Boston, Massachusetts, 7 November, 1702, and was a son 
of Joseph Dowding, Sr., a merchant of Boston (born at Boston 
23 July, 1671 ; died at Salem, New Jersey in 171 5), by his wife 
Ann Sandys, and grandson of Leonard Dowding, of Boston, 
merchant (died in 1682), by his wife Mercy Paddy. Joseph 
Dowding and Ann Sandys were married by Rev, Cotton 
Mather, 21 September, 1694, Ann Sandys was born at Boston, 
2 November, 167 1, and was a daughter of John Sandys, mer- 
chant of Boston, by his wife Ann Manning, and granddaughter 
of Henry Sandys, of Boston, merchant, by his wife Sybil or 
Sibilla, Ann Manning, wife of John Sandys, was born at 
Boston, 13 March, 1652, and was a daughter of Captain John 
Manning (a prominent merchant of Boston, and an officer in the 
"Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company"), by his second 
wife Ann, daughter of Richard Parker, also a merchant of that 
city, Mercy Paddy, Wife of Leonard Dowding, was a daughter of 
William Paddy by his wife AHce, daughter of Edward Freeman, 
WilHam Paddy came to Massachusetts in 1634; was a member 
of the General Court of Plymouth Colony in 1639; later re- 



— my tears almost hinder my enlargeing — I would say many things more but I cannot. I have 
passed a Bond for M*" Pembertons Debt & taken up your note & mine. The Lord still provide 
for you & yours and Grant that (altho you should never see my Face again in this World, yet) 
you meet in a JoyfuU Eternity with 

Hon^ & Dear Parent 

Your most Affectionate Son, 

Joseph Dowding jr. 
P. S. Mr. Hansom will Let you have Six Bushels of Wheat. I would have sent more but 
the Vessel could not take it in. 

Yo"^ ut Supra 

J. Dowding jr. 
Let me know if you got any part of my D'" Brothers Estate or have his Seal Ring by you. 
if you have I would willingly by some Opportunity exchange the Value for it. If not please 
to Send y^ Old Draught of my Coat of Arms if its not lost by M"" Henry Dear Child say it sends 
its love & Duty to you. J. D. 

Kindly remember me to all Relations & friends & I would gladly see them would my Cir- 
cumstances admit. 

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moved to Boston, where he was a prominent merchant, and a 
member of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company." 

Issue: 

173. Sarah Penrose/ born 22 August, 1759; died 21 July, 1760. 

174. Thomas Penrose,* born 27 January, 1761; died unmarried, 8 Sep- 

tember, 1794. He was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 

175. Joseph Penrose,* born circa 31 July, 1762 ; died circa 20 August, 1762. 

176. Ann Penrose,* born 16 July, 1764; died without issue, 6 April, 1793; 

married, 15 December, 1791, Dr. William Alatthews, of Baltimore, 
Maryland. 

177. Joseph Penrose,* born 21 January, 1767; died 2 July, 1767. 

178. William Penrose,* born 6 September, 1768; buried i December, 

1816; married, 22 December, 1795, Hannah or Annah Norwood. 

179. Mary Penrose,* born 8 November, 1769; died 4 August, 1770. 

180. Joseph Penrose,* born 7 January, 1771; died unmarried, 6 October. 

1802. 

181. James Penrose,* born 2 June, 1772; died, 27 July, 1773. 

182. John Penrose,* born 13 September, 1773; died July, 1774. 

183. Richard Penrose,* born 15 March, 1775; died 8 August, 1776. 

184. Charles Penrose,* born 14 September, 1776; died 24 June, 1849; 

married Ann Rowan. 

31. James Penrose,^ son of Thomas Penrose ^ by his wife 
Sarah Coats, was born at Philadelphia, 23 February, 1737-38; 
died there, 7 September, 1771. He was a ship-builder and 
a shipping merchant, in co-partnership with his brother Thomas, 
and, Uke him, became a signer of the famous "Non-Importation 
Agreement," and a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 
Miss Annie Ehza Pennock, the grand-niece of James Penrose, 
thus writes of him: "He was a very handsome man, with 
the courtly manners of the 'old school,' fond of society, hos- 
pitable and generous, hot-tempered, but very popular, and 
always retained the good-will of friends and neighbors, not- 
withstanding frequent outbursts of temper." His death is 
thus noted in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" of 12 September, 
1771: 

" On Saturday last— died, in the 34th year of his age, Mr. JAMES PEN- 
ROSE, an eminent Ship-builder. A man of great Ingenuity and abilities in his 

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Profession, of universal Esteem among all that knew him, and particularly re- 
spected by all who were intimate with him. His remains, attended by a vast 
concourse of respectable inhabitants, of all Denominations, were interred on 
Sunday evening in Friend's Burying Ground." 

He married, 15 March, 1766, Sarah, daughter of John 
Biddle by his wife Sarah Owen, and a descendant of Honorable 
WilHam Biddle.* She married (2), 15 August, 1776, John 
Shaw; (3) Rudolph Tillier; and died 24 October, 1794. 

* William Biddlk was one of the early proprietors of West Jersey, and was prominent in 
the founding of that Province. He was born in England, about 1630, and in 1681 emigrated, 
with his family, to West Jersey, having previously acquired there large landed rights. He was 
a Quaker, and was persecuted in England on account of his religious faith. At the time he 
emigrated he was a resident of London, and on his arrival in America he settled at what is now 
Kingora, about midway between Burlington and Bordentown, New Jersey, where he took up 
a plantation of five hundred acres on the mainland, and two hundred and seventy-eight acres, 
the area of an adjacent island, which has since borne the name of Biddle's Island. To this 
plantation Mr. Biddle gave the name of " Mount Hope." 

Mr. Biddle was one of the leading men in the early public affairs of the province, and, in 
1682, at the organization of the first governor's council, he became a member of that body, and 
was also commissioned one of the justices of the peace for Burlington County, and a member 
of the board of Land Commissioners. He was re-elected to the Council in 16S3, 1684, and 1685, 
and again, in 1701, and during the years 1683, 1684, 1685, 1687, and 1697, he was a member 
of the Assembly. He was, also, re-commissioned a justice of the peace in 1683, and many 
years thereafter. 

At a meeting of the proprietors of West Jersey, held 14 February, 1687, it was decided to 
appoint eleven of their number "Commissioners and Trustees " to conduct the business of the 
proprietors. Mr. Biddle was chosen a member of this board, called the " Council of the Pro- 
prietors," and was annually re-elected for many years, being the president of the Council in 
1706 and 1707. 

In 1703, the provinces of East and West Jersey were united under the name and style of New 
Jersey, and Mr. Biddle was elected a member of the first Assembly under the government thus 
formed. 

He married in London, England, in February, 1666. Sarah Kemp, who died at her husband's 
seat, " Mount Hope," 27 April, 1709 in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Mr. Biddle died there, 
in the early part of 1712, leaving two children: William and Sarah. The latter married (i), 
William Righton, of Philadelphia; (2), Honorable Clement Plumsted, who was three times mayor 
of Philadelphia. By his will, Mr. Biddle disposed of over fourteen hundred and seventy-eight 
acres of land, he being one of the largest landed proprietors in the Province. 

William Biddle, Jr., son of Honorable William Biddle by his wife Sarah Kemp, was born 
in London, England, 4 December, 1669, and came to America with his parents in 1681. Under 
his father's will he acquired "Mount Hope," and there resided until his death. He appears 
neither to have sought nor held public office, except that in 1703 he was one of the commissioners 
chosen by the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey, "to secure a survey and deed from the In- 
dians of land above the Falls," which land had been purchased from the latter. He married, 13 
December, 1691, Lydia Wardell, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the ceremony being performed 
by Lewis Morris, Esq., a justice of the court of Monmouth County, New Jersey. She was a 
daughter of Eliakim Wardell by his wife Lydia Perkins, and granddaughter of Tho.mas Wardell, 
who was living in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1634, subsequently removing to Piscataqua, 
New Hampshire, where he was commissioned a magistrate in 1643, under the Massachusetts 

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Mr. Tillier was a native of Berne, Switzerland, where his 
family occupied a high social position. He was a man of 
wealth, and invested largely in lands in various parts of America. 
In 1788 he went to Europe, to visit his relatives in Switzerland, 
taking with him his wife, and his stepson, Clement Biddle 
Penrose. Mrs. Tillier's letters to her family, describing her 
travels and her stay in Europe, are most interesting. One of 
them, written at Berne, 20 January, 1789, and addressed to 
her father, and to her aunt Mary Biddle, reads : 

"I refer my much lov'd and Honord Father to my general letter for an 
account of our voyage & the reception our family gave us, which was as affec- 
tionate as we could wish, & indeed we have had more attention from every 
body than was agreeable to either of us. 

"We viewed everything — to satisfie Clement — that Mr. Tillier thought 
most curious & our short stay would admit. What pleased me most, was the 
Gobeling, the Hospital of Invalids & the building of the former Military school 
for Noblemen, begun by Lewis the 14th. At the Gobelins they are weaving 
Tapestry for the King's Palace. The Shades are equal to any painting in the 
world. The figures as large as life. One apartment is the History of Queen 
Hester, the others are Roman pieces. They have been three years at work 
on this & it is not half finish'd, but will exceed anything of the kind when com- 
pleated. The same day visited the Hospital; the structure of the dome in the 
chapel, is superb & magnificient beyond description of my feeble pen. The 
silence that reigned in this spacious building, four or five old soldiers at private 
prayer, the grandeur of the architecture & painting, struck us with reverential 

government. By his wife, Lydia Wardell, William Biddle, Jr., had six children, to wit: William, 
Elizabeth, Sarah, Penelope, Joseph, and John. 

John Biddle, the youngest son of the above-named, was born in 1707, and in early life settled 
in Philadelphia, where he died in 1790, and where he married, 3 March, 1736, Sarah, daughter 
of Owen Owen, Esq., high sheriff of Philadelphia County from 1726 until 1729, and coroner 
of that county from 1729 until 1741. Mrs. Biddle died at Philadelphia, i January, 1773. They 
had five children, namely: Owen, Clement, Sarah, Ann, and Lydia. Colonel Owen Biddle, 
the eldest son, was a prominent PhUadelphian, and filled a conspicuous position in that city 
during the Revolution, being a member of Committee of Safety, the Pennsylvania Board of 
War, and Commissary-General of Forage. He was for over forty years a member of the American 
Philosophical Society, serving nine years as its Secretary, and seventeen years as a councillor. 
Colonel Clement Biddle, the youngest son, was also a prominent Philadelphian, and during 
the Revolution he served as deputy-quartermaster-general of the Continental Army, and became 
the first Marshal of the United States in Pennsylvania, to which he was appointed by President 
Washington, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship. Sarah Biddle, the eldest 
daughter, married James Penrose, as mentioned in the text. Ann Biddle, the next daughter, 
married General James Wilkinson, of Revolutionary fame, and who later commanded the army 
of the United Spates. Lydia Biddle, the youngest daughter of John Biddle, married Dr. 
James Hutchinson, a noted surgeon of the Revolutionary army. 

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awe, of the great ruler of the universe, that poor lame mortals were addressing. 
The Military School is beautifully situated, a very grand building and paint- 
ings; The stairs ornamented with the statues of the greatest men of different 
ages. I was taken ill of an epidemic disorder that raged in Paris, & insisted 
on setting off, being sure that fresh air, was the only thing to restore me & pre- 
vent my belov'd husband & son taking the same disorder, but it was too late, 
they had reed the infection & was ill a few days after. Notwithstanding there 
are so many grand edifices gardens and everything you can wish for but pure 
air, Paris is the dirtiest place in the world. The streets are narrow in general, 
the houses 4 & 5 stories high & the streets constantly muddy. I will do justice 
to its inhabitants in saying I never saw people behave at a public place with 
so much deUcacy & true politeness as the Parisianers. 

"Clem was very ill on our journey, but as I recovered & could let him lay 
on my lap, & he was better when travelling, we concluded to proceed on our 
journey. Mr. T. had the disorder lighter than either of us. We travelled 
through France in the height of the vintage. The roads were crowded with 
people loaded with grapes, & each one wore a face of contentment & plenty. 
Some were gathering, others loading waggons & baskets, singing bowing and 
curtesying to us for three hundred miles through Champagne, Burgundy and 
part of French Compt. The roads are paved like our street, trees on each side 
through Champagne, handsomely trimm'd & vineyards on the side of the road. 
The fields are not enclosed, except Gentlemens seats with a hedge round the 
houses. Shepherds keep their flock, & tho not of the Arcadian kind, I wish'd, 
sick as I was, very much lov'd aunt for your pen to do justice to the countries 
I pass'd through. 

"We now approached the mountains. That of Saline was the first. I 
thought when near the top that it was too high to be inhabited but found a large 
well built Town, where the principal Salt Works of France are carried on. In 
travelling through France you see a great number of thach'd villages as well 
as well built Towns. We travelled for half a day between two ridges of moun- 
tains ; had at the same time the view of a dozen ridges inhabited on the sides & 
many castles on the tops of the mountains, which appeared inaccessible. The 
road is cut in the side of the mountains wide enough for two carriages to pass. 
If you look up it is perpindicular five hundred feet, and cast your eyes below 
on the steep descent it is twice the highth of the Minesink by Reading, & 
terrifying to behold. Here I was certain of no Inhabitants, but after Assending 
six Miles found several farms on the very Sumit of the Mountain. We traveled 
from Mountain to Mountain till we reached the borders of Switzerland, here 
our name was known at every Inn & great respect paid us, but we soon found 
the difference of the French & Swiss Public House, the one very dirty & bad 
entertainment except at large Town, the Swiss were clean a good dish of tea 
Excellent provision & beds. Clem recovered as soon as he smelt the Air of 
Switzerland, which pleased his Papa very much. We remained two days at 
New Chattel. This place is call'd Switzerland, but is only in Alliome. It 

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belongs to the King Prussia with liberty to form their own laws. The Town 
is built on several eminenc's. The buildings are handsome, and a place of 
great Trade. It is situated on the side of a large Lake, the best Vine Country 
we saw. Berne is a very beautiful situation, a kind of Peninsula. The River 
R runs on the north & south side, this river is about the width of Grey's Ferry, 
but a more rapid stream. It is a fortified Town, has four entries with double 
Gates & Centinals constantly at them. Their uniform Red & blue & Red 
twin'd up with black, which gives them the appearance of British. The streets 
are broad, extremely Clean with fountains in the Middle of each street & a 
stream of water running through them. The houses are built of stone, the 
second story projects over the first & is supported by arches, that you may 
allways walk dry. There are at the end of the East principal Public Walks 
that are laid out in grass plots, with trees & green seats, the shape of sofas. It 
is built on a hill which is wal'd & below the walls are hanging gardens. On 
the bank of the R it appears another Town. We are so much higher there. 
The washer women, hatters, diers &c. live. From the south side we have a 
full view of the glassiers & neighboring hills which are a great distance off. The 
most noble sight the imagination can paint is the Glasiers appearing above the 
Clouds. The sun will shine at the top when they are covered with thick Clouds 
half way down. How often my belov'd Father & aunt do I wish you at this 
place. My Father was form'd for it. The Old Gentlemen go to the Coffe 
house at 3 oc. play a party at cards, have the best of eating, return to supper at 
8 oclock, dine at one, & we never have the house wash'd. This would be the 
very thing for my Belov'd Father. I must instruct you how to clean floors, 
rub them with soft stone cutters stone dry, sweep it off & take wet saw dust 
rub it on with a hard broom & sweep that off. I never saw such beautiful 
white floors as we have & this is the Method of Cleaning them. Dont know 
the use of a house Cloth. If water is spilt they throw saw dust on it & sweep 
it off. My hand is so numb'd I can hardly hold my pen, therefor must leave 
off & request my Father to send this letter to aunt Biddle. With affc love to 
my dear Cousin L. M. P. B. W. B. & all the family, shall write soon to them 
all. My afft love to L. Spencer, the Miss Cliftons, & Mrs. Beach. Intend 
writing to them all. Adieu my much lov'd Father and Aunt. May Heavin 
continue you as blessing to your Family, & may you not forget the Child & 
neice that loves you sincerely tho distant Hills & seas divide us, her heart is 
with you. My brother often asks me to tell you he will bring us to pay you & 
my lov'd much lov'd sister & brother Wilkinson a visit. Tho I write in ex- 
treme pain cannot leave off. May you injoy health to answer our letters is 
my fervent prayer. 

" Yr sincere afft child & neice 

"Sarah Tillier." 
"Berne, Jan 20th 

"If there can be found at any rate the Biddle, Wardels, or Owen Coat of 
Arms pray send them let them cost what they will, as my brother is anxious to 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



have them placed with the Women of the family. I have heard Aunt Tallman 
say the Biddies was three Bishops. It was on her Tankard. Will give you 
the Customs & Laws of Berne in my next letter." 
Issue : 

185. John Penrose/ died 13 May, 1768, aged fifteen months, and twenty- 

three days. 

186. Clement Biddle Penrose,^ born 20 February, 1771; died in 1820; 

married Anne Howard Bingham. 

33. Samuel Penrose,^ son of Thomas Penrose ^ by his wife 
Sarah Coats, was born at Philadelphia, 11 November, 1742; 
died there in 1796. He was one of the founders of the First 
Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry (now known as the "First 
City Troop"), — the first mihtary body organized in Penn- 
sylvania in connection with the Revolutionary War. The 
Troop was formed in Philadelphia on the evening of 17 No- 
vember, 1774, and those who then joined it were representa- 
tives of the families of respectabihty and wealth of Philadelphia. 
In 1777 he became Quartermaster Sergeant of the Troop, and 
served as such to the close of the Revolution, and in 1786 
his name was placed on the honorary roll. He was elected 
a member of the Provincial Convention which met at Phila- 
delphia, 23 January, 1775, and continued by adjournments, 
from day to day, to the 28th of that month. This was the 
most eminent body of men that had, up to that date, assembled 
in Pennsylvania. In 1780, at a critical stage of the Revolution, 
Mr. Penrose was one of the ninety-two patriotic Philadelphians 
who came forward and organized the "Pennsylvania Bank," 
which institution was formed for the purpose of securing 
capital with which to furnish supplies to the Continental Army. 
The capital of the Bank was ;^3oo,ooo, of which Mr. Penrose 
subscribed ;^iooo. In 1781, 1782, and 1783, he was elected 
a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Mr. Penrose was 
a merchant, and in the later years of his hfe he is styled " Gent" 
in conveyances of land. He was an Episcopalian, and had a 
pew in St. Peter's Church. 

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He married (i), 3 April, 1766, Ann, daughter of Plunket 
Fleeson, Esq.*; (2), 30 September, 1780, Sarah Moulder. 

Issue by first marriage : 

187. Sarah Penrose.* 

Issue by second marriage: 

188. Mary Penrose *; married, 20 February, i8c6, Joseph Ogilby. 

189. Elizabeth Penrose,* died without issue; married L. S. Pierson. 

190. Rebecca Penrose.* 

36. Isaac Penrose,^ son of Thomas Penrose ^ by his wife 
Sarah Coats, was born at Philadelphia, i March, 1746-47; 
died there, 16 January, 1784. He appears to have married 
after 29 September, 1771, the date of his will, as in the same 
no mention is made of either wife or children. His daughter 
Harriet, in her will of 25 February, 1800, named "brother" 
Isaac, and "sister" Frances. Mr. Penrose w^as a hatter. He 
married (i) Cassandra Hall, of Maryland, who was buried in 
Christ Church burying-ground, 4 September, 1781; (2) Ann 

, who married for second husband, 

Jonathan Hutcheson. The two eldest children were by the 
first marriage, and the youngest, by the second. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

191. Harriet Penrose,* born 21 May, 1776; died 2 March, 1801, un- 

married, and was buried in Christ Church graveyard. 

192. Frances Penrose,* born 31 August, 1777; died 22 May, 1825; married 

Joseph Ash. 

193. Isaac Penrose,* born 28 April, 1783; was living in 1791, but probably 

died unmarried and without issue. 

* Plunket Fleeson was of Irish parentage, but is said to have been born in Phila- 
delphia in 1712. On 1 January, 1747-48, he was commissioned ensign in one of the com- 
panies of the "Associated Regiment of Foot of Philadelphia." He was a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Assembly in 1762 and 1763; signed the "Non-Importation Agreement" in 1765, and 
28 March, 1777, was commissioned a justice of the courts of Philadelphia, and, 18 November, 
1780, was commissioned a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of which he was president judge 
for some years. He was active in furthering the cause of the Revolution and in 1776, he loaned 

the State ;£5oo to raise recruits for the army. He married (i), circa 1740, Catharine , 

who was buried in Christ Church graveyard, 13 December, 1752. He married (2), 16 June, 1753, 
Martha Linton, probably a widow. Judge Fleeson died at Philadelphia, in August, 1791. In 
his win he names, among others, "son-in-law" Samuel Penrose and "granddaughter" Sarah 
Penrose. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



38. Jonathan Penrose,^ son of Thomas Penrose ^ by his 
wife Sarah Coats, was born at Philadelphia, 10 July, 1752; 
died there, i April, 1801, and was buried in Christ Church 
burying-ground. He became a prominent citizen. Shortly 
after the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry was organized, 
he enhsted in that body, and was in active service with it on 
several occasions, particularly during the campaign of the 
winter of 1776-77, which culminated in the battle of Princeton. 
The Troop won distinction in the campaign, and at its close 
was discharged by General Washington in the following com- 
plimentary order: 

"The Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, under command of Captain 
Morris, having perform'd their Tour of duty, are discharged for the present — 

"I take this Opportunity of returning my most sincere thanks to the Captain 
and to the Gentlemen who compose the Troop, for the many essential services 
which they have rendered to their Country, and to me personally, during the 
Course of this severe campaign. Tho' composed of Gentlemen of fortune, they 
have shewn a noble Example of discipline and subordination, and in several 
actions have shewn a spirit of Bravery which will ever do Honor to them and 
will ever be gratefully remembered by me. 

"Given at Head Quarters at Morristown this 23d Jany. 1777. 

"Go. Washington." 

In Richard Peters' account book, page 33, mention is made 
of Jonathan Penrose as one of a party of six volunteers, who, 
in the campaign just referred to, entered the enemy's Unes at 
Trenton to secure particular information for the Commander- 
in-Chief. Upon their return, after securing the desired in- 
formation, they surprised a party of the enemy, and captured 
eleven light dragoons, whom they drove at the point of their 
pistols into camp, being so closely pursued, however, that 
Penrose had to take his prisoner on his horse before him to 
save himself from capture. For this act of bravery General 
Washington is said to have personally complimented young 
Penrose. 

Mr. Penrose remained an active member of the Troop until 

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THIRD GENERATION. 



lo September, 1787, when his name, and that of his brother, 
Samuel Penrose, who had been Quartermaster of the Troop, 
was placed on the Honorary Roll. 

Jacob Hiltzheimer, in his "Journal," makes the following 
mention of Mr. Penrose : 

"5 Sept. 1781. General Washington left for the southward. Jonathan 
Penrose has charge of the wagons that transport the cannon to head of Elk. 

"17 Aug. 1784. Mr. Geyer and I set the teams to work on New Water Street. 
Jonathan Penrose took us home with him, and gave us a drink of punch. We 
were told that he was recently elected a magistrate of Southwark." 

Mr. Penrose resided in the district of Southwark, and at 
about the date last mentioned he was elected one of the jus- 
tices of the peace for the County of Philadelphia, in which 
capacity he served several years. In 1798 he was elected High 
Sheriff of the County, and held such position at his death. 
Mr. Penrose was a large landowner. On i July, 1784, he 
received a warrant for four hundred acres in Northumberland 
county, and on the 6th of the same month a warrant for 
four hundred acres in Cumberland county. Early in life he 
became a member of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club. 

Miss Annie Eliza Pennock has contributed the following item 
relating to Jonathan Penrose : 

"He was said to be very lively and companionable, and in his youth was 
somewhat given to ridiculing foolish and pretentious people. His brother 
Thomas sometimes reproved him for his 'too great liking for hunting and hos- 
pitality,' and on one occasion when so reproved, he replied : ' Tommy, if I had 
your money, I would make the stones of Southwark rattle under me till they 
waked the dead.' 

" During the latter years of his life he owned an old-fashioned country house 
on the ' Banks of Schuylkill,' a pretty wooded bluff on the east side of that river, 
beginning not very far below Gray's Ferry, and continuing some distance until 
the road on the banks descended, near the Hamburgh Tavern, to the flat 
meadows of the 'Neck.' He and his amiable wife were renowned for their de- 
lightful entertainments there, especially in 'strawberry time' and 'watermelon 
and peach season.' His town house was in Front Street, below Almond, in the 
old district of Southwark, a quaint, old-fashioned edifice, entered through a small 
garden on the south side. The main door was between the parlor, fronting on 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



the street, back of it, hall and staircase, and next, the sitting and dining room. 
During the Revolution a dissipated, worthless English officer was quartered on 
them, who brought a disreputable woman to the house. Mrs. Penrose and her 
children were compelled to leave, and the English couple almost destroyed the 
house and its contents by their 'riotous ill living.' When the EngUsh Army 
evacuated Philadelphia in 1778, they stole everything portable, among other 
articles a parlor mantle mirror, 'real French, bevelled edges, carved frame 
adorned with gilded work.' Of course it was small compared with the large 
mirrors of our time, but was much admired and thought most 'elegant and 
uncommon.' The English officer in charge of the baggage wagons refused to 
carry it to the ship on which they sailed away, and the woman, ' very drunk at 
the time on wine and Hquors stolen from Mr. Penrose's cellar, fell into a horrible 
rage, and swore like a drunken trooper ' that no American lady ' should ever again 
have as much pleasure in gazing at herself in the mirror as she had enjoyed,' 
made her captain drag it to the floor, and then danced on the glass with her high- 
heeled shoes till it was in splinters, and he smashed the frame. On returning to 
town, Mrs. Penrose found her once neat and comfortable home too much 
damaged and filthy to live in until thoroughly cleansed and repaired, a very 
difficult and costly work in the bare and demoralized city. Mrs. Jonathan Pen- 
rose's father was a cousin of the famous Irish patriot, Hamilton Rowan, and 
when the latter fled to this country after the defeat of the Irish Rebellion led by 
Robert Emmet, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and others, he settled in a little cottage 
in Delaware, I believe in or near Wilmington (one account says Newcastle), was 
for a time in great poverty, and compelled to open a dyeing and fulling estab- 
lishment. He was there visited by Dr. John Rowan, son of Thomas. Dr. John 
Rowan was then settled in Salem, N. J., practicing medicine. He learned, on 
visiting Hamilton Rowan, that the real name of the latter was 'Rowan Hamil- 
ton,' son of a Scotch-Irish gentleman of that name, but he changed his name by 
act of the then existent Irish Parliament, as he wished to marry his cousin, Jane 
Rowan, a great heiress, who, under the express terms of her father's will, would 
have forfeited her large estate unless she always retained the name of Rowap, 
even if married. Hamilton Rowan was acknowledged to be the handsomest 
and most agreeable and accomplished gentleman in Ireland, his wife was equally 
attractive, and their lives were prosperous and most happy until the ruin follow- 
ing the Irish Rebellion. I should here mention that Mr. Hamilton's mother was 
a Miss Rowan, and that the family claimed kinship with the celebrated French 
and Austrian families ' De Rohan.' " 

He married, 8 November, 1775, Ann, daughter of John Rowan 
by his wife Margaret Sharp *; born i December, 1758; died 19 
June, 1843. 

♦Margaret Sharp had first married Thomas Hill, who died in 1741. She was a daughter 
of Colonel Isaac Sharp by his wife Margaret Braithwaite. Colonel Sharp was a son of Anthony 

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THIRD GENERATION. 



Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

194. Thomas Rowan Penrose," born 7 September, 1776; died 25 Decem- 

ber, 181 2; became a member of the First City Troop, 31 July, 1798, 
and so continued until his death. 

195. Margaret Penrose," born in November, 1778; died in August, 1790- 

196. James Penrose," born 28 December, 1780; died 2 December, 1801; 

was a midshipman in the United States Navy. 

197. Sarah Penrose," born i June, 1782; died 3 June, 1782. 

198. Ann Penrose," born 11 August, 1783; died 19 September, 1820; mar- 

ried William Collins. 

199. Sarah Penrose," born 18 August, 1785; died 18 October, 1810. 

200. Jonathan Penrose," born 8 November, 1787; died 17 September, 

1789. 

201. Jonathan Penrose," bom 18 December, 1789, and is said to have 

been lost at sea. 

202. Margaret Penrose," born 26 February, 1793; died 18 February, 

1868; married William Supplee. 



Sharp, an Englishman, who removed to Dublin, Ireland, and became a wealthy merchant, and 
the owner of large proprietary rights in both East and West Jersey. Colonel Sharp came to New 
Jersey about 1702. and settled on a large estate in Salem County, which he received from his 
father. In 1703 he was chosen one of the CouncU of Proprietors for West Jersey; was a member 
of the New Jersey Assembly from 1709 until 172s; was commissioned, 28 March, 1719, Colonel 
of the Salem and ;Cape May Counties Regiment, and was for many years one of the justices 
of the courts of Salem County. In 1726 he went back to Ireland, and there died m 173S. He 
married at Salem, New Jersey, in 1704, Margaret Braithwaite, andhad sons, Anthony Isaac, and 
Joseph and daughters Mary, Sarah, Rachel, and Margaret. The latter married (i) Thomas 
Hill who died in 1741; (2) John Rowan, a brewer of Philadelphia, named m the text. 




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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 




162. Captain Thomas Robinson/ son of 
Abraham Robinson, Esq., by his wife Sarah 
Penrose,^ was born at Naaman's Creek, New 
Castle County, Delaware, 29 July, 1768, and 
died 17 May, 1847. He served as captain in 
the War of 1812. He married (i) Catharine 
G., daughter of Honorable Henry Hale Graham by his wife Abi- 
gail Pennell ; born 2 January, 1773 ; died 24 January, 1836. He 
married (2) Mrs. Sarah Ann Crosby, widow of Robert P. Crosby, 
of Chester, Pennsylvania, and daughter of Nathaniel Davis. 

Issue : 

203. Henry Robinson.^ 

204. Sarah Penrose Robinson,^ died 5 March, 1865; married Benjamin 

Coombe. 

163. Mary Robinson,* daughter of Abraham Robinson, 
Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Naaman's Creek, 
Delaware, 18 November, 1770; died in 1838; married, 4 No- 
vember, 1 801, James Mcllvaine, son of John Mcllvaine by 
his second wife Lydia Barnard; born at Ridley Township, 
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 14 February, 1769; died 19 
October, 1850. 

Issue, all born at Ridley : 

205. John McIlvaine,^ born 18 October, 1802; died 10 April, 1869; mar- 

ried Elizabeth Matlack. 

206. Abraham Robinson McIlvaine,' born 14 August, 1804; died 22 

August, 1863; married Anna Garrison Mulvaney. 

207. William McIlvaine,' born i July, 1807; died 9 November, 1890; 

married Sarah Crosby Morton. 

208. Sarah McIlvaine,^ born 25 September, 1809; died 21 April, 1882. 

209. Anthony Wayne McIlvaine,^ born 25 December, 1811; died 31 

October, 1831. 

210. Susan Humphrey McIlvaine,^ born 21 August, 18 14; died i March, 

1832. 

166. Sarah Penrose Robinson,* daughter of Abraham 
Robinson, Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Naa- 
man's Creek, Delaware, i6 March, 1776; died 11 June, 1846; 

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FOURTH GENERATION. 



married as second wife, 14 February, 1799, Thomas Perkins, 
Jr.; born 9 October, 1763; died at Naaman's Creek, Delaware, 
14 November, 181 1 ; son of Thomas Perkins by his wife Hani^ah 
Ford. Thomas Perkins, Jr., was High Sheriff of<.New CastleX 
County, Delaware, at the time of his death. 

Issue, born at Naaman's Creek, Delaware : 

211. Thomas Jefferson Perkins,^ born 9 June, 1800; died 19 May, 

1857; married Mary Hannah Robinson. [See No. 219.] 

212. Abraham Robinson Perkins,* born in 1803; died in 1804. 

213. Abraham Robinson Perkins,* born 24 May, 1805 ; died 26 November, 

1877; married Margaret Rowan Penrose. 

168. Anthony Wayne Robinson,^ son of Abraham Robin- 
son, Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Naaman's 
Creek, Delaware, 17 September, 1780; died at Philadelphia, 30 
March, 1840; married, 4 November, 1814, Sarah, daughter of 
Judge Thomas Adams by his wife Ann Eyre ; born at Burlington, 
New Jersey, 6 June, 1791; died at Philadelphia, 18 October, 
1856. 

Issue : 

214. Mary Ann Robinson," born 16 October, 1815; died without issue, 

25 April, 1849; married Presley Blakiston. 

215. Abraham Robinson,* born 12 May, 1818; died, unmarried and with- 

out issue, 19 April, 1861. 

216. Thomas Adams Robinson,* born i December, 1820; married Rachel 

Gorgas Thomas. 

169. Penrose Robinson,* son of Abraham Robinson, Esq., 
by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ was born at Naaman's Creek, Dela- 
ware, 15 November, 1782; died in York County, Pennsylvania, 
in 1846; married, 2 June, 1808, Janet, daughter of John Bayly 
by his wife Hannah Clark; born in 1780; died in 1871. 

Issue : 

217. Anthony Wayne Robinson,* born 30 May, 1812. 

218. Penrose Robinson,* born 7 April, 1814. 

219. Mary Hannah Robinson,* born 8 June, 1820; died in 1863; married 

Thomas Jefferson Perkins. (See No. 211.) 

220. Thomas Anthony Robinson,* born 30 July, 1825. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



170. Juliana Robinson,* daughter of Abraham Robinson, 
Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose,' was born at Naaman's Creek, 
Delaware, 5 October, 1784; died at Chadd's Ford, Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, 16 January, 1867; married, 2 October, 
1806, David Hoopes; born at East Cain, Chester County, Penn- 
sylvania, 22 March, 1776; died at Philadelphia, 14 December, 
1845. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

221. Penrose Robinson Hoopes,^ died 6 July, 1881; married Musadora 
Myers. Issue: (222) David J. Hoopes.^ (223) Thomas Myers 
Hoopes.^ 

224. Jane Hoopes,^ born 19 September, 1810; died 10 June, 1890. 

225. John Robinson Hoopes,^ died 30 July, 1851. 

226. Joseph Hoopes,^ born 13 November, 1814; died 5 November, 1852; 

married, 12 September, 1844, Margaret, daughter of Davis Orum 
by his wife Rachel W. Longstreth. Issue: (227) Clara Hoopes,' 
married, 21 September, 1865, George Bullock Atlee, son of Dr. Ed- 
vrin Pitt Atlee; died 26 April, 1893. (226a) Morris Joseph 
Hoopes.^ (226b) Elizabeth Butcher Hoopes." 

228. Mary McIlvaine Hoopes.^ 

229. William Graham Hoopes,^ died 30 May, 1889. 

230. Charles flooPES.^ 

171. Margaretta Wayne,* only daughter of Major-General 
Anthony Wayne by his wife Mary Penrose,' was born at her 
father's seat, " Waynesborough, " in 1770; died in Delaware 
County, Pennsylvania, 13 March, 1810; married, at St. James' 
Church, Perkiomen, 3 November, 1790, Wilham Richardson 
Atlee, Esq., son of Colonel John Atlee by his wife Sarah Richard- 
son; born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 27 May, 1765; 
died at Winfield, Carroll County, Virginia, 24 November, 1844. 
He was chosen, 28 September, 1789, by the Supreme Executive 
Council of Pennsylvania, the first prothonotary of Delaware 
County, and, also, clerk of the Quarter Sessions and Orphans' 
Courts, and a justice of the Court of Common Pleas, which 
positions he held for many years, and was, from 1822 until 1824, 
prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania. 

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FOURTH GENERATION. 



Issue: 

231. Mary Wayne Atlee,^ born 26 July, 1802; died i March, 183S; 
married Isaacher Evans. 

172. Colonel Isaac Wayne,* only son of Major-General 
Anthony Wayne by his wife Mary Penrose,^ was born at his 
father's seat, " Waynesborough, " Chester County, Pennsylvania, 
in 1768; died there, 25 October, 1852. He was educated at Dick- 
inson College, and after graduating at that institution, he studied 
law at Philadelphia, under William Lewis, Esq., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar there in 1794, and to the Chester County bar 
the next year. He remained in the practice of his profession but 
eighteen months, when he went to reside at the paternal mansion, 
in order to attend to the management of the Waynesborough 
estate, which, owing to the long absence of his father in the public 
service, needed better care than was bestowed by the tenants. 

Colonel Wayne was a decided Federalist in pohtics, and in 
1800 and 1 80 1 he was elected a member of the Assembly. In 
1806 he was elected a member of the State Senate, and in 1810 
was re-elected, but served but one year of that term. In 1814 
he was nominated by the Federal party for governor of Penn- 
sylvania, and also as a candidate for Congress, but failed of 
election to both, although he ran ahead of his ticket. In 1822 he 
was elected to Congress, but decHned re-election in 1824. 

He raised a regiment of cavalry in Chester County prior to the 
War of 181 2, of which he was elected colonel, and when that war 
broke out, he offered his services and those of his regiment to the 
government. He was ordered to Marcus Hook, and spent the 
summer of 1814 in Camp Dupont, at which time an attack on 
Philadelphia was expected. 

In 1829 and 1830, he pubhshed in "The Casket" a short 
memoir of his father, in which he studiously presented the most 
important of the documents relating to his military career. 

Colonel Wayne married, 25 August, 1802, Elizabeth Smith, 
born in 1778. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Issue, born at " Waynesborough " : 

232. Anthony Wayne,^ born 1804; died 5 July, 1833. 

233. William Wayne,^ born 1807; died 25 September, 1815. 

234. Richard Wayne,^ born 1812; died 23 September, 1815. 

235 Wayne,^ born 1812; died 13 July, 1817. 

236. Mary Wayne.^ 

178. William Penrose/ son of Thomas Penrose^ by his 
wife Ann Dowding, was born at Philadelphia, 6 September, 
1768; died there, i December, 1816. He was elected, in 1801, a 
member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, from the County of 
Philadelphia.* He resided for some years at the corner of 
Water and Almond Streets, where the buildings of the Franklin 
Sugar Refinery now stand. From there he removed to what is 
now No. 628 Spruce Street, where he died. He married, at 
Boston, Massachusetts, 22 December, 1795, Annah (or Hannah), 
daughter of Ebenezer Norwood by his wife Abigail Emmes, of 
that city; born there, 28 November, 1778; died at Philadelphia, 
7 July, 181 7. The following interesting correspondence relating 
to their marriage has been preserved : 

"Boston, nth. month, 9th day 1795. 

"It is a long time since I intended to write a few lines to my uncle's esteemed 
friend, Mr. Anthony, to make some interesting enquiries of Mr. Penrose, who 
has professed a tender aJBFection for my dear niece, Annah Norwood, but was 
prevented by a severe nervous fever which has just left me, and am getting well 
fast, for which I am extremely grateful. 

"It was a request of my sister, Norwood, by Mr. P.'s desire to ask some 
information of you through Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith told her he had no doubt 
of Mr. P. himself, he had behaved Hke a gentleman at his house, and was 
generous and manly as it respected Hannah, and that any one who brought 
letters from you came strongly recommended. We join him there, but after 
all, the mother as well as the aunt, would be better pleased to have it confirmed 
by you ; for that purpose I am able to write you a few Unes. 

"The welcome confirmation has come in by letter received by Mr. Smith, 
entirely to our satisfaction — for which we all join in sincere gratitude to you, 
my dear sir, for the kind interest you so sincerely take now, and ever have 
taken, in all that concerns us, ever since I had the pleasure of knowing you; 

* In 1793 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and in 1810 he was mana- 
ger of the Magdalen Society. 

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William Penrose, and His Wife, Ann ah Norwood (No. 178). 



■ PENROSE FAMILY. 



c.^borough" • 
HONY Wayne,' born 1804; died 5 Jvily, 1833. 
" ■' '*'"■ — " ' iiorn 1807; died 25 September, ■ • 
born 1812; died 23 September, \ 

WAYNE,'' born 1812 ; died 13 July, iSi 7. 

/30. Mahy Wayne.' 

178. William Penrose,* son of Thomas Penrose^ by his 
wife Ann Dowding, was bom at Philadelphia, 6 September, 
i768;died there, ! '"^ ' '^ ' 'le was elected, iniSoi, a 

rri ember ./ «].. ' s\ from the County of 

s at the corner of 
he Franklin 

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at 



oi 
...,.....:,ia, 
nee relating 
.(B-^i .o\A) aoo-ffsioVi hamkA ^hiiV/ aiH qma .aaoavial maijjiW 

n, 9th day 1795. 

intended t -^ my uncle's esteemed 

Ice some interesting enquiries of Mr. Penrose, who 

-'■-- for my deax niece, Annah ^^^ '' but was 

cr which has just left me; ting well 

fasi, i; jteful. 

"I* ' Norwr-'^<. by Mr. P.'s desire to ask some 

i- -jith told her he had no doubt 

o; lieman at his house, and was 

.h, and that any one who brought 

•jd. We join him there, but after 

Itetter pleased to have it confirmed 

ju a few lines. 

by letter received by Mr. Smith, 

in in sincere gratitude to you, 

rely take now, and ever have 

had the pleasure of knowing you; 



gener; 
letters = ^ 
all, the mo . 
by you; for 
"Thewc 
entirely to oui . 
my dear sir, for 
'aken, in all tha 



* In 1703 he became a contributor to tbe P««!re>lvjuua Hospital, and in 18 jc he was reana- 
1 f,f iVi,= Magdalen Society. 

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liiM 

! Ililllillllllllii 

11 
III 







FOURTH GENERATION. 



and while I have life I hope to retain the high sense of many obligations to you 
and your amiable family which I sincerely love; please to offer my affectionate 
love to them. 

"How is my dear Mrs. Pollock? I have been anticipating a visit from her 
all this summer. 

"I have trembled for my sweet girl; my Hannah is, my dear sir, the counter- 
part of my dear Abby; sweet, gentle, accomodating disposition as ever a child 
was blessed with. She will be a great acquisition to any family. 

"We are very much pleased with the two young men, if either had the prefer- 
ence it was Mr. P., but we did not think at the time that we would please him 
so well. But how shall I part with her?, Hh. there is the rub. But away 
with it; many things worse than that may happen to me. If she be happy, I 
am satisfied. 

"My dear Addy has two beautiful children, Samuel and Hannah Smith, 
we are very happy in her and her children. 

"Let me hope for your pardon in keeping you so long, but permit me to wish 
you every blessing that so good a mind as you possess can enjoy. My most 
affectionate love attend my dear Mrs. Anthony; I long to see her. With every 
sentiment of esteem and gratitude, 

"I am your sincere friend, 

"Hannah Smith. 

"To Joseph Anthony, Esq." 

"Dear Father. 

" Yours of the 15th inst. came duly to hand, to which I should have earher re- 
pUed had not sundry avocations relative to my peculiar situation prevented me. 

"I have now to inform you my dear parents that Tuesday last finished my 
career of single life, an event very important and which ought to be entered 
into with prudence and mature deliberation, both which I believe have had every 
attention from me the matter required; and if a good disposition accompanied 
with gentle manners and unaffected sincerity are the necessary requisites for 
the enjoyement of true happiness, I conceive myself to be very fortunate, as 
my dear partner is possessed of these as well as other agreeable quaHties neces- 
sary to our mutual happiness. I shall not attempt to prepossess you in favor 
of a person still unseen, but leave her merits to you, an event we both anticipate 
the greatest pleasure possible. 

" Mr. Smith yesterday received a letter from Mr. Anthony where I observed 
your anxiety for my return. I hope you will not suppose any time has been 
unnecessarily spent there, for I do assure you our friends here consider my 
absence from home and have used every prudent exertion to hasten the time 
of my departure; but there still remains sundry things to be done before we 
leave here, and we are doing every thing that lies in our power for that purpose. 
I can not yet name the time for leaving, but expect it will be in the course of 
ten or twelve days, of which I shall advise you in due time. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



"I had once thought of getting a carriage but my friends here fear it would 
be attended with many inconveniences on the road. They have therefore 
advised taking the mail stage in the beginning of the week and persuing the 
route without stopping until our arrival in New York, which will take from 
Monday morning 12 o'clock until Saturday following 10 o'clock a. m. a distance 
of about 240 to 250 miles, which averages about 50 miles a day and which I 
hope we shall easily accompUsh the weather being cool and not so fatiguing as 
in the summer season. My dear girl desires her sincere love and duty to you 
both, and all my friends, and wishes to assure you that however affecting and 
disagreeable the parting with her friends and nearest connections may be, she 
uses every means in her power to hasten our arrival in Philadelphia, where I 
have no doubt, (leaving her nearest connections and parents behind) she will 
find them replaced in the affection of those she may find in my family. 

"I have now to request that you make my most sincere acknowledgement 
to Mr. Anthony for his unbounded friendship and attention to me on this occa- 
sion, having experienced through him all possible favors from his worthy friends 
in this place. 

"We both unite our fervent wishes for his and theirs uninterupted happiness, 
but language is too weak to express our gratitude to him, and the will must be 
a substitute for the deed. 

"Our mother with uncle and Aunt Smith join us in love to you both and 
hope to present you with a daughter worthy of your acceptance in every respect, 
I am, dear father, 

"Your most affectionate son, 

"William Penrose. 

"Thomas Penrose, Esq., 
"85 Penn Street" 

"Boston, January 7th, 1796. 
"Dear Father: 

"It is with much concern I have observed several post days elapse without 
receiving any of your esteemed favors, for which I can not account, and as there 
will be but one mail arrive previous to our departure, I have little expectation 
of hearing from you until my arrival in New York; a long and very unpleasant 
silence to me. 

"In my last I informed you of my intention of taking the mail stage which 
I have done, and confirm my expectations of leaving here Monday next (the 
time mentioned in my last) for New York (where baring accidents) I expect 
to be in the following Saturday following; and according to previous advice I 
hope to find Mr. W. Clifton, an escort which will afford me ineffible pleasure. 
I hope dear Father my absence from you may be excused, considering the im- 
portance of my present undertaking, and the time necessary for accomplishing 
my errand. I do assure you I antisipate inexpressable pleasure in again seeing 
my friends and introducing to them my worthy companion with whom I hope 

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FOURTH GENERATION. 



she may enjoy every possible pleasure and satisfaction; and as nothing will be 
wanted on her part to accomplish this happy event I am sure it will be a time 
of mutual pleasure and happiness to us all. 

" We are now spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who take a 
great interest in our happiness and who have endeared themselves to us by 
most sincere and numerous acts of friendship, which I hope we may always 
have gratitude enough to acknowledge, not only in expressions but in actions. 
"Please excuse me to W. CHfton for not writing by this post as it is the eve 
of my departure, my time is engaged making the necessary arrangements. 

"All our friends have joined us in most sincere love to you all, which we 
have no doubt of your acceptance from them, as well as from, 

"Your most affectionate children, 

"William and Ann ah Penrose. 
"Mr. Thomas Penrose 
"85 Penn Street 
"Philadelphia, Pa." 

"Philadelphia, Pa., February 8th, 1796. 
" Mrs. Abigail Norwood : 

"I wrote you 6th of last month, and received yours of the 21st. 

" Our dear children arrived home on the aad, in good health. Their arrival 
gave us much pleasure and reheved us from much anxiety. 

"We are much pleased with your daughter, Annah, and have adopted her 
as our own, and shall do all in our power to make her happy. She has dined 
and supped with all our near relations and friends. A number of ladies and 
gentlemen have visited her, so now she will have it in her power to return visits 
to whom she wishes to make acquaintance 

"Accept, dear sister, our best wishes for your happiness both in time and 
eternity. 

"Thomas and Ann Penrose." 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

237. Thomas Norwood Penrose,^ born 27 May, 1798; died 17 January, 

1869; married Jane Glading. 

238. Abigail Ann Penrose,^ born 9 March, 1800; died i August, 1801. 

239. William Penrose,^ born 17 December, 1801; died 23 September, 

1802. 

240. AnnPinkerton Penrose,* born 15 April, 1804; died 26 June 1883; 

married WilHam von Albade Anderson. 

241. Abigail Norwood Penrose,* born 22 August, 1806; died 28 Decem- 

ber, 1846, unmarried. 

242. Samuel Smith Penrose,* born 6 June, 1808; died 14 August, 1809. 

243. Samuel Smith Penrose,* born 19 February, 1810; died 8 July, 1839; 

married Rebecca Widdifield. 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



244. Hannah Smith Penrose/ born 2 February, 1812; died 15 Novem- 

ber, 1899; married Morris Longstreth Hallo well. 

245. William Penrose,^ born 12 March, 1814; died 23 June, 1814. 

246. Norwood Penrose,^ born 2 March, 1816; died 6 September, 1871, 

without leaving issue; married Josephine Head. Mr. Penrose was 
for a number of years associated with Joseph B. Hanson & Com- 
pany, tobacco commission merchants. 

184. Charles Penrose/ son of Thomas Penrose^ by his 
wife Ann Dowding, was born at Philadelphia, 14 September, 
1776 ; died there, of cholera, 24 June, 1849. ^^ his youth he was 
instructed in the art of ship-building, — the occupation of his 
ancestors for several generations, — but in early life he retired 
from business, being a man of considerable wealth. As early 
as 1803 he is styled "Gent" in the City Directory. In 1804 he 
was chosen one of the port wardens of Philadelphia, and in 
1812, in response to the wishes of his personal friend. Honorable 
WiUiam Jones, Secretary of the Navy, he accepted the position 
of Superintendent of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and in this 
capacity he supervised the construction of the man-of-war 
"Franklin," said to have been for many years one of the finest 
ships in our navy.* In 1813 he was elected one of the com- 

* His connection with the navy yard and the building of the "Franklin" is thus mentioned 
by his granddaughter, Miss Annie Eliza Pennock: 

"When appointed Superintendent of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, he found that the Naval 
Secretary, Honorable WiUiam Jones, was quite correct in believing that the yard has been shame- 
fully mismanaged, and the Government plundered in every possible way. His first duty was to 
dismiss all incompetent and dishonest workmen (the larger part of the employees) and replace 
them by skillful ship carpenters. He then refused to accept any timber, iron-work, canvas, or 
cordage, in short everything used in building of a vessel for the navy, contracted for, unless the 
articles bore the most severe tests as tOjthe quality and quantity. His friend, Mr. Jones told many 
people, especiaUy President Madison, that the reason he so strongly urged Mr. Penrose to take 
the position, was because he knew him to be absolutely upright, independent and fearless in the 
discharge of his duty, also a thoroughly trained and capable shipbuilder, though no longer in the 
business on his own account, and, most important of all, that no political considerations would 
influence him in the least in the necessary appointments in the Navy Yard, as had been notoriously 
the case for several years. The result was the complete reform Mr. Jones hoped for, and the 
' Frankhn' was long believed to be the best built ship of her class in the United States or any other 
navies. Some years later, she was sent to the Mediterranean, and whUe stationed at an Italian 
port — I think Naples — met many of the finest ships of the English, French, Turkish, Russian, 
and Swedish navies then visiting that port, and to the great pride and delight of her officers and 
crew, was pronounced by all competent judges equal in all essentials, if not superior, to the best 
among the European war-ships. This was of course most gratifying to our Government, and also 

64 



FOURTH GENERATION. 



missioners for Southwark, which district had a separate cor- 
porate existence, its chief officers of government, until the Con- 
soHdation Act of 1854, being styled Commissioners. He was one 
of the managers of the Humane Society, and, for thirty-one 
years, president of the Southern Dispensary. He was elected a 
director of the Bank of Pennsylvania, in which position he 
served several years. He was a Whig in pohtics, and he resided 
at the southeast corner of Penn and Shippen (now Bainbridge) 
Streets. He followed his father in attending Friends' Meeting, 
although, like him, he never became a member of the Society 
of Friends. 

He married (ceremony by Bishop White), 16 January, 1800, 
Ann, daughter of Dr. John Rowan,* of Salem, New Jersey, by 
his wife Sarah Hall, great-granddaughter of Honorable William 
Hall,t a provincial councillor of New Jersey; born i October, 

to Mr. Penrose and all others who had striven so hard to make the '.Franklin' what she proved 
to be, in every sense — ' a first rate.' I believe she is still afloat, but razeed to two tiers of guns 
instead of three, and has a steam propeller. I am glad my grandfather did not live to see his good 
ship spoiled — it was done many years after his death. By a singular coincidence, she was sent to 
the East commanded by Captain, since Admiral Franklin, and when in Japanese ports, the Japs 
frequently asked ' if the ship was named after him, or he after the ship.' (From ' Life of Admiral 
Franklin.') Mr. Penrose did not remain long in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Though in the 
prime of life, his health was not good, and he felt it would not always be possible for him to do 
his duty thoroughly, and he resigned." 

* See note, page 54. 

t William Hall was born in England, and came to America in 1677, and landed at Elsin- 
borough, Salem County, New Jersey, 2 2d of 12th month, the same year. A few years later he 
removed to the town of Salem, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1697 and 1701 he 
was chosen a member of the assembly of West Jersey; in 1699, and in several subsequent years, 
he was a justice of the peace and of the Court of Common Pleas for Salem County, and in 1708 
he was commissioned a member of the Governor's Council for New Jersey, which office he held 
until April, 1713. In 1707 he was chosen one of the trustees for the Proprietors of West Jersey. 
He was himself a large landed proprietor, and was recognized as one of the leading men of the 
colony. Mr. Hall died circa February, 1713-14. His will was proved 10 February, 1713-14 
and dated 10 April, 1713. He married (i), 21 May, 1684, Ehzabeth Pyle, who died about 1699; 
(2) in 1700, Sarah, daughter of WiUiam Plumsted, of London, and sister of Honorable Clement 
Plumsted, who was three times mayor of Philadelphia, and many years a provincial councillor 
of Pennsylvania. 

William Hall, son of William Hall by his wife Sarah Plumsted, was born at Salem, 22 
October, 1701; died at his seat in Mannington, Salem Coimty, in 1761. He was a large land- 
owner, and in 1 755 was commissioned one of the judges of Salem County. He married, 20 Novem- 
ber, 1723, Elizabeth Smith, by whom he had, among cither children 

Clement Hall, of Elsinborough, Salem County, born 15 February, 1724; died in 1769 ; 
married Margaret, daughter of Joseph Morris, and had, among other children, daughter Sarah, 
who married Dr. John Rowan, of the text. 

5 6s 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1779 ; died 27 December, 1846. She was the niece of the wife of 
his uncle Jonathan Penrose. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

247. Sally Ann Penrose,^ born 26 October, 1800; died 25 August, 1803. 

248. Harriet Penrose,^ born i February, 1803; died 16 February, 1857; 

married Isaac Webb Pennock. 

249. Thomas Penrose,^ born 19 October, 1804; died 21 August, 1805. 

250. James Penrose,* born 21 July, 1806; died 3 August, 1888; married 

Marian Pennock. 

251. Margaret Rowan Penrose,^ born 21 May, 1809; died 29 May, 1892; 

married Abraham Robinson Perkins. (See No. 213.) 

252. Sarah Penrose,^ born 28 July, 1811; died 21 January, 1891; married 

Clement Adam Buckley. 

253. John Rowan Penrose,^ born 20 August, 1813; died 11 September, 

1869; married Anna Maria Burton. 

254. Ann Mathews Penrose,' born 16 November, 1815; died 24 March, 

1888; married Washington Keith. 

255. Charles Penrose,' born 17 April, 1818; died 22 November, 1874. 

256. Mary Elizabeth Penrose,' born i August, 1820; died 12 April, 

1895, at her residence, 1414 Spruce Street, where she had resided 
over forty years. 

257. Elizabeth Penrose,' born 27 May, 1823; died 8 November, 1823. 

186. Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose/ only surviv- 
ing child of James Penrose ^ by his wife Sarah Biddle, was born 
at Philadelphia, 20 February, 1771; and is said to have died, 
about 1820, at St. Louis, Missouri. He was married at 
Trinity Church, New York city, by the Reverend Benjamin 
Moore, i August, 1796, to Anne Howard, daughter of Major 
Charles Bingham* by his wife Anne Howard, daughter of 
Sheffield Howard. His boyhood was cradled amidst the scenes 

* Major Charles Bingham was a kinsman of Charles Bingham, the first Earl of Lucan, 
and on 25 December, 1776, was commissioned Ensign in the 35th Regiment of Foot, 
British Army, under Colonel H. Fletcher Campbell. On 21 March, 1782, he was commis- 
sioned Captain- Lieutenant and Captain in the 105th Regiment of Foot, under Francis Lord 
Rawdon, Colonel Commanding, and later became Major. Both of these regiments were in 
service in America during the Revolution, and shortly after young Bingham arrived in New 
York with the first regiment above named, he married Anne Howard, daughter of Sheffield 
Howard, a merchant of that cit>'. Upon the death of Major Bingham, his widow married for 
second husband, Sir Thomas Hay, which fact is thus recorded in Burke's Peerage : " Sir 
Thomas Hay, eldest son of Alexander Hay, married, 27 Aug., 1793, Anne, widow of Major 

66 




Major Charles Bingham, Father of Anne Howard Bingham, the Wife 
OF Clement Biddle Penrose (No. iS6). 




LY. 



ber, 1846. She was i 
enrose. 



• wife of 



born 26 October, 1800; died 25' August, 1803. 
.•m I February, 1803; died 16 February, 1857; 
married Isaac VveDb Pennock. 
..^y Thomas Penrose,* born 19 October, 1804; died 21 August, 1805. 

250. James Penrose,* bom 21 July, 1806; died 3 August, 1888; married 

Marian Pennock. 

251. Margaret Rowan Penrose,* born 21 May, 1809; died 29 May, 1892; 

- ' • -- >. 213.) 

2f3. ' (uuarv, 1891; married 



■ larch, 



about 
Tr 

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Shettield li 



* Maj.<. 
and on 2<r, it' 
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stoned Ca. 
Rawdon, ' 
service iu ..,,., 
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Howard, a meri 
second bu, 
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aiiY/ 3HT .u/ iroviia aa/.v/oH aKsiA uo aaHTA'i ,MAHOsiia aaj^AfieM jioxaM 
.(d8i .oK) aaoH'/ial aaaaiS TKaj/arjD io 

'cr, 1823. 



'SE,' only su • 

Biddle, was Lum 

aid to have died, 

uis, Missouri. He was married at 

Reverend Benjamin 

vid, daughter of Major 

nc Howard, daughter of 

cradled amidst the scenes 



first Earl of Lucan, 

s>iin ill the- 35th'Rcgiment of Foot, 
On 21 March, 1782, he was commis- 

■ — ' -' '■ -' '- '"--"•:■.<; Lord 

.vere in 

3 New 

d 

-• it:ci)riie(i m iiuike's i'etrage ; "Sir 
27 Aug., 1703, Anne, widow of Major 



Anne Howard, Wife of Major Charles Bingham, 



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FOURTH GENERATION. 



of the Revolution, and, in his early childhood, he was selected 
as one of two youthful standard-bearers to one of the first 
companies raised in Philadelphia, for that contest, which 
selection was made to evince that the enthusiasm and fervor 
of patriotism pervaded the young and the old, and extended 
to all ranks and conditions. " Driven from Philadelphia when 
that city fell into the hands of the invading foe, he accom- 
panied his widowed mother and an honored uncle [Colonel Clem- 
ent Biddle], an officer high in the confidence of the great chief 
who led our armies to battle, to the Valley Forge ; and though 
but a child, witnessed and shared in the sufferings of that terrible 
winter — one of the most gloomy periods of the revolution. " * 

Mr. Penrose enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, 
part of which he received in Europe, where he went, in 1 788, with 
his mother, and stepfather, Rudolph Tillier. Returning to 
Philadelphia, he was commissioned by Governor Mifflin, ensign 
of a company of light infantry in the seventh battalion of the 
City and Liberties Mihtia, a fac-simile of which commission is 
herewith interleaved. In 1803, he was a candidate for Congress, 
on the Democratic-Republican ticket, but failed of an election. 
In 1805, he was commissioned by President Jefferson one of the 
Land Commissioners of the Louisiana Territory, and removed 
to St. Louis, then the head-quarters of that government. It is 
possible that this appointment was secured in part through Gen- 



Bingham, and daughter of Sheffield Howard, Esq., of New York, a scion of the noble house of 
Norfolk, and a loyalist, who lost large possessions during the War for Independence in America." 

Sheffield Howard, according to family history, was a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk, 
and incurred his father's displeasure by marrying his tutor's sister, and came to America to seek 
his fortune. He settled in New York, about 1741, and engaged in business there as a merchant. 
He probably died in New Jersey, late in 1788, or early in 1789. Letters of administration on 
his estate were granted in New Jersey, 21 January, 1789, unto his daughter, Anne Bingham, and 
in the bond filed, she is called " the wife of Charles Bingham." On 24 November, same year, 
letters of administration were also granted unto her, in New York, and in the bond filed there, 
Sheffield Howard is styled " late of the City of New York, gentleman." In a letter of attorney 
given at New York by Anne Bingham, 20 November, 1792, she is called " the only daughter 
and heiress of Sheffield Howard." (New York Deeds, cxii, 58.) 

* Extract from speech of his son. Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose, in the Senate of Penn- 
sylvania, March, 1839. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



eral James Wilkinson, who had married a sister of Mr. Penrose's 
mother, and who had previously been appointed Governor of that 
Territory. Mr. Penrose became prominent in St. Louis, and in 
1816 he was appointed one of the commissioners to organize 
the St. Louis Bank, the first in that section of the country. 

Issue: 

258. Charles Bingham Penrose,^ born 6 October, 1798; died 6 April, 

1857; married Valeria Fullerton Biddle. 

259. Clement Biddle Penrose,^ born 30 September, 1802 ; married Ann 

Wilkinson. 

260. James Wilkinson Penrose,^ born in 1808; died i January, 1849; 

married Mary Ann Hoffman. 

261. Ann Penrose,^ died about 1832. 

262. Howard Penrose.^ 

263. Mary Penrose,^ died at Philadelphia in 1886. 

264. Sarah Tillier Penrose,^ died at St. Louis, Missouri, 15 December, 

1821. The "St. Louis Inquirer" thus recorded her death: "Died 
on Friday morning, the 15th inst. in the spring of life, Sarah Tillier 
Price, youngest daughter of Clement Biddle Penrose, Esq., formerly 
of this city." "If the dawning of a mind far surpassing her age, if 
strong perceptions, sweetness of disposition, with filial and paternal 
piety, could have saved this loved victim from a premature grave, 
her numerous, sorrowing, inconsolable relations would not have to 
deplore her early fate." 

192. Frances Penrose,* daughter of Isaac Penrose^ by his 
wife Cassandra Hall, was born at Philadelphia, 31 August, 1777, 
died there, 22 May, 1825 ; married, 28 April, 1804, Joseph Ash, 
son of Caleb Ash by his wife Rebecca Lownes; bom 16 May, 
1770; died 9 April, 1840. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

265. Penrose Ash,^ born in 1805; died 7 November, 1847. He was treas- 

urer of Philadelphia County from 1844 until 1846. 

266. Rebecca Ash,* born 3 November, 1806; died 7 May, 1847. 

267. Caleb Lownes Ash,^ born 3 August, 1809; died in 1850; married 

Bella Maria Ashmead 

268. William G. Ash, born 16 August, 1811; died 27 January, 1836. 

269. Harriet Penrose Ash,* born 22 December, 1813; died 5 March, 

1836. 



Commission of Clement Biddle Penrose (No. i86). 



Issue : 

258. C'HAiaKS 

185- ; 

259. Cli i 

'360. Taj.!. 



\^ROSE 

. Penrose's 

viousiy been appointed Governor of that 

e became prominent in St. Louis, and in 

....V.J one of the commissioners to organize 

, the first in that section of the country. 



iT 6 October, 1798; died 6 April, 
•iddle. 
!.K Penrose,* born 30 September, 1802; married Ann 

"oorn in 1808; died i January, 1849; 



rly 

::. if 

•. ' ' ;. .paicnial 

.(d8T .oVi) agoana'I aaaaiS TMSMafJt3!^ i*c>l^aiBi«)3ravc, 

itbii; rclativ>ns would not have to 



died there, 22 
son of Caleb 
1770; died 9 

Issue, born • 

265. Pek 

266. REr 

267. Caleb L 

Bella : 

268. WiLLIAI.' 

269. Hariuet 

1836. 



-ac Penrose^ by his 

jia,3i August, 1777, 

■ ied, 28 April, 1804, Joseph Ash, 
Rebecca Lownes; bom 16 May, 



November, 1S47. He was treas- 
until 1846. 
died 7 May, 1847. 
ijist, 1809; died in 1850; married 

died 27 J a 

;rrember, 1813; uiL-fi ^ .wufiii, 




In the Name, and by the Authority, of the Commonwealth of 



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Lcrd, ii/rider- uour coiri^and, io oe oOeduni io niowr Ura&r<s a<5 c^ /t^€P^ ^' — — ^-- — ^ — -^ 

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FOURTH GENERATION. 



270. Francis Ash,^ born 15 October, 1823. 

271. Sarah Ash,^ born 30 July, 1818; died in infancy. 

198. Ann Penrose,* daughter of Jonathan Penrose ^ by his 
wife Margaret Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, 11 August, 
1783; died 19 September, 1820; married, as second wife, 11 
November, 181 2, William Collins, Esq., son of Governor 
Thomas Collins, of Delaware; died at his seat "Belmont Hall," 
near Smyrna, Delaware, 3 November, 1821. Mr. Colhns was 
a justice of the peace for Kent County, Delaware. 

Issue: 

272. Sally Penrose Collins,^ born 7 December, 1813; died 21 September, 

1814. 

273. Jonathan Penrose Collins,^ born 19 February, 1815; died 4 

June, 1886; married Mary Knowles. 
273a. Mary Penrose Collins,^ born 12 September, 1816; died 14 Octo- 
ber, 1820. 

274. Ann Penrose Collins,^ born 20 September, 1818; died circa 1862, 

at Des Moines, Iowa; married Frederick Hancock, and had six 
children. 

275. Charles Penrose Collins,^ born 6 April, 1820; died i April, 1901; 

married Mary Harper Watt, who died 23 May, 1902. 




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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 




205. John McIlvaine,^ son of James Mcll- 
vaine * by his wife Mary Robinson, was born 
at Ridley, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 
18 October, 1802; died at Philadelphia, 10 
April, 1869 ; married Elizabeth Matlack, by 
whom he had: 

Henry C. McIlvain,* born 20 February, 1838; married, 11 October, 
1870, Fanny N. Randall. They have issue. 

277. Thomas M. McIlvain,^ born 12 April, 1841 ; died 18 June, 1857. 

278. James M. McIlvain,^ born 10 October, 1844; died 12 August, 1845. 

279. Abraham Robinson McIlvain,^ born 18 November, 1847; married, 

24 June, 1875, Elizabeth E. Eshleman. They have issue. 

280. William H. McIlvain," born 7 March, 1852; died 21 July, 1S61. 

206. Honorable Abraham Robinson McIlvaine,^ son of 
James Mcllvaine by his wife Mary Robinson,* was born 14 
August, 1804; died 22 August, 1863. He was bred a farmer, 
and settled on " Springton Farm, " on the Brandywine in Chester 
County. In 1836 and 1837 he was a member of the Legislature 
of Pennsylvania, and dedined a nomination for the State Senate 
in 1838. In 1840 he was chosen a presidential elector, and voted 
for Harrison and Tyler, the successful candidates for the pres- 
idency and vice-presidency. In 1842 he was elected to the 
Twenty-eighth Congress from the Seventh District, composed 
of Chester County, and was re-elected in 1844 and 1846. He 
was a warm supporter of the protective tariff system, and de- 
livered able speeches in support of his views. He stood among 
the earliest opponents of the annexation of Texas, and spoke 
against that measure, 25 January, 1845. He was equally strong 
in his opposition to appropriations for the prosecution of the war 
with Mexico. In an able speech, 18 June, 1846, he said : "He 
washed his hands of this war. It was a war unnecessarily and 
unjustly forced upon the country by the President, without 
authority of law, and in violation of the constitution, which gave 

to Congress alone the power to make war." 

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FIFTH GENERATION. 



In 1848, and for several successive years, he was president of 
the Chester and Delaware Counties Agricultural Society, and 
for a long time was president of the State Agricultural Society. 
He married, 16 March, 1830, Anna Garrison, daughter of P. 
Mulvaney, of Belmont County, Ohio, by his wife Elizabeth, 
daughter of Nathaniel Calvert. 

Issue : 

281. James Patrick McIlvaine,^ born 21 February, 1831; died 10 Novem- 

ber, 1854. 

282. Mary Elizabeth McIlvaine,^ born i June, 1833; died 29 March, 

1839. 

283. William Henry McIlvaine,* born 16 March, 1835; died 21 Septem- 

ber, 1 84 1. 

284. Charles McIlvaine,^ born 31 May, 1840; married, 20 October, 1864, 

Sarah Gibson, daughter of Hugh Mcllvain by his wife Martha; 
born at Philadelphia, 2 January, 1844; died there, 27 January, 1891. 
Captain Mcllvaine is a civil engineer by profession. At twenty- 
one he was division engineer of the East Brandywine and Waynes- 
burg R. R. In 1861, at the opening of the Civil War, he was ap- 
pointed by President Lincoln, captain in the 19th Infantry, U. S. A. 
While waiting an appointment, he became impatient and raised a 
company of one hundred men, which he attached to the 97th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, then organizing at West Chester, 
Pennsylvania. For distinguished services, Captain Mcllvaine was 
appointed Chief of Ordnance on the staff of Brigadier-General 
Alfred H. Terry, and to several other important positions, among 
them Judge Advocate of the Department of the South. After the 
close of the war he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
Later he became interested in extensive lumber operations, which 
took him to the mountains of West Virginia. Prior to this he in- 
vented the Printer's Copyable Ink, which revolutionized commercial 
and railroad printing in this country and in Europe. The mountains 
and mountaineers interested him. He wrote there many humorous 
sketches and short stories for "The Detroit Free Press," "Puck," 
"The Continent," "American Magazine," etc.; and began there his 
study of fungi, which he pursued energetically. This resulted in the 
publication of his book, "One Thousand American Fungi," the 
most comprehensive and complete work upon the subject. Captain 
Mcllvaine directed his study in fungi to ascertaining the edible 
species. Of these, he has by personal experience in eating full 
meals of them, determined over eight hundred edible species, and 
is still devoted to this work. He is a contributor to "Century," 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



"Harper's," " Lippincott's," "Puck," "Judge," and other well- 
known publications. He is head of the School of Mycology in the 
New York Chautauqua, and has been given the honorary membership 
in many scientific bodies. His writings are largely upon natural 
history subjects, which he treats in happy vein. 

285. Mary Robinson McIlvaine,^ born 13 May, 1842. 

286. Elizabeth Mulvaney McIlvaine,* born 17 July, 1844; married, 15 

October, 1868, J. Gibson Mcllvain, and has issue. 

287. Sallie Robinson McIlvaine," born 10 October, 1852; married, 6 

December, 1883, Frank P. Miller. 

208. William McIlvain,^ son of James Mcllvaine by his wife 
MarylRobinson,* was born at Ridley, Delaware County, Penn- 
sylvania, I July, 1807 ; died at Reading, Pennsylvania, 9 Novem- 
ber, 1890; married, 17 April, 1834, Sarah Crosby, daughter of 
Aaron Morton by his wife Ann Crosby. Mr. Mcllvain was an 
ironmaster.* 

Issue : 

288. Charles McIlvain,^ born 20, and died 21 September, 1835. 

289. Crosby Morton McIlvain,® born 27 September, 1837; died 3 July, 

189s ; married Sidney Harvey Loeser, and had issue. 

290. Howard McIlvain,^ born 26 October, 1839; died 15 November, 

1862; was junior first lieutenant in Donell's Battery, 104 Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, and was mortally wounded in battle. 

291. William Robinson McIlvain," born 28 January, 1841. 

292. Albert McIlvain,® born 7 December, 1843; died same day. 

293. Ann Eliza McIlvain,^ born 4 April, 1845. 

294. Sallie Robinson McIlvain,* born 30 January, 1848; died i Feb- 

ruary, 1848. 

295. Spencer Lightner McIlvain,® born 11 April, 1852. 

296. Sarah Crosby Morton McIlvain,^ born 22 May, 1853; died 24 

May, 1853. 

211. Thomas Jefferson Perkins,^ son of Thomas Perkins, 
Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose Robinson,* was born at Naa- 
man's Creek, Delaware, 9 June, 1800; died at Philadelphia, 19 
May, 1857. He was a dry-goods merchant, being a member of 
the firm of Perkins & Company, composed of himself and his 

* Some of the family spell Mcllvaine witliout an " e". 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



brother Abraham Robinson Perkins. He was a member of 
Select Councils of Philadelphia in 1855 and 1856, and a member 
of the Board of the Stephen Girard Trust, and a director of the 
Western Bank, of Philadelphia. He married, 28 June, 1838, 
Mary Hannah, daughter of Penrose Robinson by his wife Janet 
Bayly; born at York, Pennsylvania, 28 June, 1820; died at 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 12 August, 1863. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

297. Jane Robinson Perkins,^ born 18 September, 1840; died 9 July, 1841. 

298. Sarah Jane Robinson Perkins,^ born 15 October, 1842. 

299. Abraham Robinson Perkins,^ born 7 August, 1844; married (i) 

Louisa, daughter of Samuel Fisk; (2) Mary A., daughter of Rev. 
Burdett Hart. Has issue by first wife. 

300. Lucy Graham Perkins,* born 15 October, 1846; married, George 

G. Crowell. They have issue. 

301. Mary Hannah Perkins,® born 25 December, 1S48; married Albert 

B. Carner. They have issue. 

302. Penrose Robinson Perkins,® born 20 March, 185 1 ; married Marion, 

daughter of William Harvey. They have issue. 

303. Thomas Jefferson Perkins,® Jr., born 29 December, 1856; died 

March, 1857. 

213. Abraham Robinson Perkins,^ son of Thomas Perkins, 
Esq., by his wife Sarah Penrose Robinson,* was born at Naa- 
man's Creek, Delaware, 24 May, 1805 ; died 26 November, 1877. 
After his father's death the family moved to Philadelphia, where, 
in 1826, in connection with his brother, he founded the firm of 
Perkins & Company, dry-goods merchants, with which he was 
connected, except for a short intermission, until his death. 
While engaged in business in Philadelphia, he was also interested 
in the development of the city of Chester, where he resided dur- 
ing the summer of each year. He took a prominent part in the 
formation of the Union League of that place during the Civil 
War, and of the First National Bank, of which he was President 
from its organization in 1864 until his resignation in 1871. He 
was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, 
of which he was a trustee for thirty-five years, treasurer from 

73 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1852 to 1875, and president of the Board of Trustees at the time 
of his death. He was also a manager of the Pennsylvania Bible 
Society ; director of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and 
Dumb, and the Spring Garden Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, and a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
He married, 11 September, 1833, Margaret Rowan, daughter of 
Charles Penrose by his wife Ann Rowan; born 21 May, 1809; 
died 29 May, 1892. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

304. Sally Robinson Perkins/ born 26 January, 1835; died 17 April, 

1901 ; married Levi Taylor Rutter. 

305. Graham Perkins,* born 26 January, 1840; died 23 April, 1840. 

306. Charles Penrose Perkins,* born 2 October, 1844; married Helen 

Armstrong Wright. 

307. Thomas Graham Perkins,* twin with the above, born 2 October, 

1844; died 10 March, 1856. 

216. Thomas Adams Robinson,^ son of Anthony Wayne 
Robinson * by his wife Sarah Adams, was born at Burhngton, 
New Jersey, i December, 1820; married, 8 June, 1858, Rachel 
Gorgas, daughter of Jacob M. Thomas by his wife Keturah 
Gorgas, both of Philadelphia; born 30 October, 1830; died i 
June, 1 87 1. Mr. Robinson is a member of the Board of Man- 
agers of the House of Refuge, and the treasurer of the same ; a 
member of the Council of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the 
Board of Education, and the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of 
the Revolution, and vice-president of the Magdalen Society. 

Issue : 

308. William Thomas Robinson,* born 20 September, 1859; married, 7 

February, 1884, Mary Mason Wilson, and has issue. 

309. Anthony Wayne Robinson,* born 12 June, 1861; married, 19 

April, 1888, Marie A. Bullock, and has issue. 

231. Mary Wayne Atlee,^ daughter of Wilham Richardson 
Atlee by his wife Margaretta Wayne,* was born in Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, 26 July, 1802 ; died there, i March, 1838; 
married Isaacher Evans, of that County. 

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Thomas Norwood Penrose (No. 237). 



E FAMILY. 

... _ ihe Board of Trustees at the time 
also a manager of the Pennsylvania Bible 
)i the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and 
^' ' n Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
iStorical Society of PennsvlvaTi''p, 
He married, ii September, 1833, Margaret Rowan, dav 
Charles Penrose by his wife Ann Rowan; bom 21 
died 29 May, 1892. 

:_ '-: 26 January, 1835; died 17 April, 

jc :y, 1840; died 23 April, 1840. 

)i if n 2 October, 1844; married Helen 

October, 

.(^?.2 .oV[) :420H'/i3l aoofraoY. samohT ' 

ne 

'.on, 



i 11-ji 



; bom 3^ ^^30; died i 

,1871. n is a member of the Board of Man- 

'\- of the same; a 
........ ...aral Sciences, the 

je Penn society of the Sons of 

the Revolution, and vire- president or the Magdalen Society. 

Issue : 

308. WiLLlAja Tt^.v,!..- «.n';c-M\ ' • - ■■ -o September, 1859; married, 7 

February. and has issue. 

309. Anthom- ' t2 June, 1861; married, 19 

Apri] ' issue. 

231. Mary Wayne Atlee/ davitjhter of William Richardson 
A dee by his wi I ,* was bom in Chester 

County, Pennsyl ied there, i March, 1838 ; 

married Isaacher 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



Issue: 

310. William Evans/ born 6 December, 1828; died 20 November, 1901. 

His name was changed by act of Assembly to William Wayne. He 
married Hannah J. Zook. 

237. Thomas Norwood Penrose,^ son of William Penrose * 
by his wife Annah Norwood, was born at Philadelphia, 27 May, 
1798 ; died 17 January, 1869. In his youth he learned the trade 
of tanner, but later in Hfe engaged in pharmacy, and continued 
in that occupation until his death. He married, 5 April, 181 7, 
Jane, daughter of James Glading by his wife Elizabeth Fife; 
born 8 June, 1798; died 18 December, 1859. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

311. Armenia Palmer Penrose," born 17 February, 1819; married, 25 

December, 1849, William E. Goodale. 

312. Annah Penrose,^ born 23 May, 1820; died 26 March, i860; married 

(i), 23 May, 1854, Joel Cook; (2) Martin H. Williams. 
313 Elizabeth Glading Penrose,^ born 27 December, 1822; died 8 
April, 1853; married 8 October, 1840, Joel Cook, who later married 
his wife's sister, Annah Penrose. 

314. William Penrose,* born 4 April, 1824; died 17 June, 1824. 

315. Abigail Penrose," born 9 June, 1824; died 9 June, 1902; married, 

14 November, 1844, Ebenezer Chase. 

316. Jane Penrose," born 15 September, 1828; died 8 April, 1890; married, 

9 November, 1871, William Backman. 

317. Mary Penrose," born 15 September, 1828; died 7 April, 1829. 

318. Thomas Norwood Penrose," born 25 March, 1831; died 26 Novem- 

ber, 1 83 1. 

319. Mary Needles Penrose," born i December, 1832; married (i), 24 

December, 1863, William H. Weatherby; (2), 15 December, 1878, 
Charles McCaul, a prominent builder of Pliiladelphia, now dead. 

320. Thomas Neall Penrose," born 6 June, 1835; died 13 February, 1902; 

married Margaret Ann Stewart. 

321. Sarah Rink Penrose," born 10 January, 1838; died 28 January, 1841. 

322. William Penrose," born 10 June, 1841 ; died 24 January, 1842. 

240. Ann Pinkerton Penrose,^ daughter of William Pen- 
rose * by his wife Annah Norwood, was born at Philadelphia, 15 
April, 1804; died 26 June, 1883; married, 22 September, 1822, 
William von Albade Anderson, son of Samuel V. Anderson, by 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



his wife Sarah Hayes Wickersham; born 15 September, 1797; 
died 5 May, 1869. He was a member of City Councils, and 
appointed by that body in 1836, one of the committee to superin- 
tend the erection of Girard College. In 1824, he became a 
member of the "State in Schuylkill," and in 1849, ^^^ Gov- 
ernor of that noted institution. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

323. Charles Penrose Anderson,* born 5 March, 1826; died 30 Sep- 
tember, 1862; married, ii January, 1852, Mary Louisa, daughter 
of Francis Tete by his wife Irma Josephine Beylle; born 31 January, 
1827. Issue: (324) Francis Tete Anderson,* born 7 December, 
1853; married (i) Margaret A. Maguire; (2), 23 June, 1888, May 
Emily Felt; born i May, 1870. (325) William von Albade Ander- 
son,' born 7 September, 1855 ; died 25 October, 1856. (326) Marie 
Caroline Tete Anderson,' born 14 October, 1856, and died 
same day. 

327. Mary Ann Anderson,^ born 25 May, 1828; died 7 March, 1901; 

married Jesse Williamson, Jr. 

328. EiULiE Norwood Anderson,* born 19 July, 1832; married, 7 June, 

1853, John McCallum Emory; born 18 July, 1824. Issue: (329) 
Ann Penrose Emory,' born 6 September, 1854. (330) Harry 
Ogden Emory,' born 23 July, 1856; married, 14 October, 1884, 
Mary Laura, daughter of Colonel Edwin L. Drake by his wife Laura 
CeciKa Dowd, of Guilford, Connecticut. (331) Ellen Harriet 
Emory,' born 30 November, i860; married, 27 March, 1883, Harry 
Anderson, son of Joseph Anderson by his wife Emma Neil; born 10 
November, 1855. 

243. Samuel Smith Penrose,^ second son of WiUiam Pen- 
rose * by his wife Annah Norwood, was born at Philadelphia, 
19 February, 1810; died on board of U. S. man-of-war "Con- 
stitution," 8 July, 1839, and was buried at Macoa, China. He 
married Rebecca, daughter of James and Hannah Widdifield, of 
Philadelphia. 

Issue : 

332. William Penrose,* born in 1830; died at Glen EUyn, Illinois, 20 
September, 1892 ; married Katharine Mclntyre, who died without 
issue, at Germantown, Philadelphia, 10 March, 1893. 

* He resides in Chicago, and has changed his name to Francis T. von Albade. 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



^^^. Ellen Widdifield Penrose,* married John Henry Bentley, of Ger- 
mantown. Issue: (334) George Bentley. 

244. Hannah Smith Penrose,^ daughter of William Pen- 
rose * by his wife Annah Norwood, was born at Philadelphia, 
2 February, 1812; died 15 November, 1899; married, i March, 
1 83 1, Morris Longstreth Hallowell, son of Charles Tyson 
Hallo well by his wife Ann Longstreth. Mr. Hallowell was born 
at Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 14 August, 
1809, and died at his summer residence, near Media, Penn- 
sylvania, 16 June, 1880. He was educated at Friends' School 
at Westtown, Chester County. Upon his father's death, he 
succeeded to the latter's business, that of China and India silk 
goods importer, and became an eminent merchant. His trade 
was largely in the South and West, and when the Civil War broke 
out, the repudiation by the Southern merchants of the debts 
due his house, then Morris L. Hallowell & Company, forced the 
firm into liquidation. The business was reorganized under the 
same firm name, but a few years later Mr. Hallowell retired from 
the firm, and removed to New York, where he entered into co- 
partnership with his son. Colonel Norwood P. Hallowell, as a 
wool commission merchant. He returned to Philadelphia in 
1870, and three years later, estabhshed the banking house of 
Morris L. Hallowell & Company, and the following year was 
elected a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. He con- 
tinued in the banking business the remainder of his hfe. 

Mr. Hallowell was active in the organization of the Penn- 
sylvania railroad, and was one of its directors. He was also for 
some years a director of the Bank of North America, and a 
member of the Union League. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

335. Anna Hallowell," born i November, 1831; school teacher for some 

years, and a member of the Board of Education of Philadelphia. 

336. William Penrose Hallowell,® born 18 May, 1833; died 10 April, 

1894; married (i) Elizabeth Corbitt, daughter of Isaac Roberts Davis ; 
born 6 March, 1835; died 25 December, 1876; (2) Mary M. Dewey; 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



born 19 June, 1848. Mr. Hallowell served as a private in the Civil 
War, in Company A, First Regiment of Artillery, Pennsylvania State 
militia, and on 19 May, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant 
and adjutant of Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, and partici- 
pated in the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 
that year. He w^as honorably discharged in February, 1864, on 
account of physical disability. Issue, by first wiie: (337) Morris 
LONGSTRETH Hallowell,' born I May, 1857; married Jane Dalzell 
Picot. (338) Isaac Roberts Davis Hallowell.'' (339) William 
Penrose Hallowell,' born 30 November, 1863; married Agnes 
Hardenburgh. 

340. Richard Price Hallowell,^ born 16 December, 1835; married, 26 
October, 1859, Anna Coffin, daughter of Edward M. Davis, by his 
wife Maria Mott. Mr. Hallowell is a prominent wool commission 
merchant in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as a director of the 
National Bank of Commerce, of Boston, and as vice-president from 
1884 until 1886. He is the author of "The Quaker Invasion of 
Massachusetts," and "The Pioneer Quakers," and has contributed 
many articles for newspaper publication. His wife published "The 
Life and Letters of James and Lucretia Mott." Issue: (341) Maria 
Hallowell,' born 22 August, i860; married, 12 February, 1901, 
Joseph Prince Loud. (342) Penrose Hallowell,' born 28 October, 
1S62; died 28 April, 1872. (343) James Mott Hallowell,' born 
13 February, 1865; married, 14 April, 1903, Louise Tucker Harding. 
(344) Lucretia Mott Hallowell,' born 8 December, 1867; 
married, 31 December, 1894, Frank Spooner Churchill, and has 
issue.* (345) Francis Walton Hallowell,' married, 27 June, 
1896, Jessie Coburn Donald, and has issue. f 

346. Edward Needles Hallowell,* born 3 November, 1836; died 26 
July, 1871; married, 2 February, 1869, Charlotte Bartlett Wilhel- 
mina, daughter of William Gray .Sweet by his wife Charlotte Bartlett; 
born 2 August, 1843. General Hallowell was engaged in business in 
Philadelphia, at the outbreak of the Civil War, as a note and stock 
broker. On 26 April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth 
Battalion New England Guard, and served one month. On 18 
October, he became first lieutenant, volunteer aide-de-camp to Major- 
General John C. Fremont, and served as such until 16 December, 
the same year. On 11 January he was commissioned second lieu- 
tenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers; was promoted 

* Issue of Lucretia Mott Hallowell by Frank Spooner Churchill: Richard Hallowell Churchill, 
bom II January, 1896; died 14 January, 1896. Lucretia Mott Churchill, born 16 November, 
1898. Winthrop Churchill, born 23 September, 1900. 

t Issue of Francis Walton Hallowell by Jessie Coburn Donald: Richard Price Hallowell, 2d. 
born IS December, 1897. Cornelia Hallowell, born 23 March, 1901. 

78 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



first lieutenant, 12 November, 1862; and on 6 March, 1863, became 
captain in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers ; was promoted 
major 17 April, lieutenant -colonel 31 May, and colonel, 18 July, 
1863. He was brevetted brigadier-general of United States Volun- 
teers, for meritorious conduct, 27 June, 1865, and was mustered out 
with his regiment at the close of the war, when he was admitted to an 
interest in the firm of Hallowell & Coburn, wool commission mer- 
chants, of Boston, Massachusetts, retaining the same until his death. 
Issue: (347) Charlotte Bartlett Hallowell,^ born 22 Januar)', 
1870. (348) Emily Hallowell, born 5 June, 1871. 
349. Norwood Penrose Hallowell,' born 13 April, 1839; married, 27 
January, 1868, Sarah WTiarton, daughter of Robert Haydock by his 
wife Hannah Wliarton; born 22 January, 1846. Colonel Hallowell 
gradviated from Harvard in the class of 1861. He served from 26 
April to 25 May, 1861, as a private in the Fourth Battalion, New 
England Guard; was commissioned, 10 July, 1861, first lieutenant in 
the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers; promoted captain, 26 November, 
the same year, and, 17 April, 1863, became lieutenant-colonel, and, 
30 May, colonel of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, which 
latter commission he resigned, 2 November, that year, on account 
of disability, resulting from a woimd received at the battle of Antietam. 
He was also wounded at Glendale, Virginia, at an earlier date. 
Some of the engagements in which he participated were: Ball's 
Bluff, Siege of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, White Oaks 
Swamp, Malvern Hill, and Chantilly, Virginia, Antietam, Maryland, 
and the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 1863. 
He was a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the MiHtary 
of the Loyal Legion. In 1864 he formed a co-partnership with his 
brother, Richard P. Hallowell, in the wool business in New York, and 
remained there until 1869, when he removed to Boston, where he 
established himself as a wool broker and commission merchant. In 
1891 he was elected president of the National Bank of Commerce, 
of Boston, at which time he retired from the wool business. Issue : 
(350) Anna Norwood Hallowell,'' born 20 March, 1871; married, 
25 November, 1895, Horace Andrew Davis, and has issue.* (351) 
Robert Haydock Hallowell,' born 30 June, 1873; married, 7 
October, 1902, Rebecca Borland Jackson. (352) Norwood 
Penrose Hallowell, Jr.,' born 3 July, 1875; married, 10 October, 
1901, Margaret Ingersoll Bowditch, and has issue.f (353) John 

* Issue of Anna Norwood Hallowell by Horace Andrew Davis: Hallowell Davis, bom 30 
August, i8q6. Horace Bancroft Davis, born 15 August, 1898. Sarah Haydock Davis, born 
14 May, 1901. 

tissue of Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Jr., by Margaret Ingersoll Bowditch: Mary Bow- 
ditch Hallowell, born 18 September, 1902. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



White Hallowell/ born 24 December, 1878. (354) Esther 
Fisher Hallowell,' born 21 March, 1881. (355) Susan Morris 
Hallowell,' born 19 December, 1883. 

356. Emily Hallowell,* born 18 January, 1842. 

357. Susan Morris Hallowell," born 17 June, 1845. 

358. Morris Longstreth Hallowell," born 13 January, 1847; died 13 

February, 1847. 

248. Harriet Penrose,^ daughter of Charles Penrose * by 
his wife Ann Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, i February, 
1803; died 16 February, 1857; married, by Rev. Mr. Mead, 26 
June, 1828, Isaac Webb Pennock, of Chester County, iron manu- 
facturer, son of Isaac Pennock by his wife Martha Webb ; died 
14 November, 1832. 

Issue : 

359. Annie Eliza Pennock," born 19 April, 1829; single, and now of 

Philadelphia. 

360. Isaac Webb Pennock," born 30 November, 1830; died 24 August, 

1897, unmarried and without issue. He resided many years at 
Lexington, Kentucky. 

250. James Penrose,^ son of Charles Penrose * by his wife 
Ann Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, 21 July, 1806; died at 
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, 3 August, 1888; married Marian, 
daughter of Isaac Pennock by his wife Martha Webb. She died 
4 December, 1894. Mr. Penrose spent most of his early life on a 
farm in Chester County. For a few years he was engaged in the 
manufacture of boiler plate, near Coatesville. He retired from 
business, and took up his residence in that town. In 1856 he 
was elected a member of the Legislature from Chester County, 
Pennsylvania. 

Issue: 

361. Charles Penrose," born 25 July, 1836; died 12 April, 1881. He 

was engaged in the manufacture of iron as the junior member of the 
firm of Huston and Penrose, at the Lukens Rolling Mill on the 
Brandywine at Coatesville; married Elizabeth Webb, daughter of 
George Webb Pennock by his wife Eliza Mason. Mrs. Penrose died 
6 February, 1898. Issue: (361a) Marian Penrose,' born 15 August, 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



1874; died 24 February, 1878. (361b) Charles Frederick Pen- 
rose,^ born 6 November, 1876; died 24 March, 1878. 

362. James Norman Penrose,' born 29 December, 1841; owns and resides 

upon a ranch near Buffalo, Wyoming; married 18 May, 1897, Julia 
Cecelia, daughter of Patrick Corcoran by his wife Anna Hagarty. 
Issue: (362a) Jajies Norman Penrose,' born 15 March, 1898. 
(362b) Elizabeth Webb Penrose,' born i April, 1900. 

252. Sarah Penrose,^ daughter of Charles Penrose * by his 
wife Ann Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, 28 July, 181 1 ; died 
there, 21 January, 1891 ; married, 11 September, 1833, Clement 
Adam Buckley; born i June, 1791 ; died 13 April, 1868; son of 
Daniel Buckley, Esq., of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, iron- 
master, by his wife Sarah Brooke. Mr. Buckley graduated at 
the University of Pennsylvania in 181 1, and in 181 4 was ad- 
mitted to the Philadelphia bar. His father, Daniel Buckley, 
was for several years a member of the Assembly of Pennsylvania. 

Issue : 

363. Anna Penrose Buckley,* married John Smith Newbold. 

364. Daniel Penrose Buckley,* born 11 November, 1836; died 4 July, 

1862. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1855 ; 
studied law, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1858. 
When the war of the Rebellion broke out, he enlisted in the Fourth 
New Jersey Volunteers, and was commissioned captain. He was 
mortally wounded in the battle of Gaines' Mills. 

365. Clementina Buckley,* died in infancy. 

366. Emily Adele Buckley,* now living in Philadelphia, married (i), 16 

April, 1865, Edward Lowber, who died 10 December, 1866; son of 
WilHam Twells Lowber by his wife Susan Worrell; (2), 2 June, 
1879, John Worrell Pepper, of Philadelphia, manufacturer, and 
son of Frederick S. Pepper by his vnie Adeline Worrell. 

253. John Rowan Penrose,^ son of Charles Penrose * by his 
wife Ann Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, 20 August, 1813 ; 
died at his country seat, "Rokeby," Chester County, Penn- 
sylvania, II September, 1869. He was a prominent shipping 
merchant of Philadelphia, and for many years the senior partner 
of the firm of Penrose & Burton. He was a pubUc-spirited 
citizen, and served as a member of the Board of Port Wardens, a 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



director of the City Ice Boat, president of the Point Breeze 
Driving Park, a director of the Delaware Mutual Insurance 
Company, and from 1844 until 1852 was on the active roll of the 
First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. He married, 19 April, 
1838, Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Burton by his wife Eliza 
Plumsted Hutton; born in December, 1817; died 29 January, 
1896. 

Issue : 

367. Eliza Penrose," born 20 March, 1839; died 6 February, 1902; mar- 

ried William Cochran. 

368. Anna Rowan Penrose,'' born 29 November, 1840; married (i) John 

C. Ralston; (2) Francis C. Hooton. 

369. Ellen Penrose," born 29 October, 1844; married (i) Thomas Swann; 

(2) Honorable Ferdinand C. Latrobe. 

370. Charles Henry Penrose," born 8 July, 1848; died i May, 1852. 

371. Walter Elliot Penrose," born 21 November, 1851; died 8 Novem- 

ber, 1891; married Emily Thompson. 

254. Ann Mathews Penrose,^ daughter of Charles Pen- 
rose* by his wife Ann Rowan, was born at Philadelphia, 16 
November, 1815; died there, 24 March, 1888; married, 19 
January, 1853, Washington Keith, son of Samuel Keith by his 
wife Mary Boyd; born at Philadelphia, 22 February, 181 1 ; died 
there, 20 May, 1866. Mr. Keith was brought up to mercantile 
life, and was for some years a member of the firm of Keith and 
Kelly, in the crockery business; went to Mauritius and South 
America on various business ventures, and at one time had a real 
estate office with Samuel Pleasants. From 1862 until 1865 he 
was United States Assessor at Philadelphia. He was a member 
of the Philadelphia City Cavalry, now known as the First City 
Troop, also of the Philadelphia Club and other organizations. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

372. Charles Penrose Keith," born 15 March, 1854; married, 18 De- 

cember, 1883, Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Louis Wister by his 
■wife Elizabeth Emlen Randolph. Mr. Keith was graduated at the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1873; studied law with his kinsman, 
Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose; was librarian pro tem. of His- 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



torical Society of Pennsylvania in 1876; was admitted to the Phila- 
delphia bar in 1877, and for a number of years was an examiner of 
titles for a title insurance company. He was chief clerk to the United 
States Appraiser at the Port of Philadelphia during President Harri- 
son's administration. He is the author of "Provincial Councillors 
of Pennsylvania 1 733-1 776," and "Ancestors of Benjamin Harrison 
and Notes of Families Related," and was a contributor to "Apple- 
ton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography," and has contributed 
part second to the General History of Pennsylvania for "Penn- 
sylvania Colonial and Federal" now (1903) in press. He is a 
member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; a founder and 
a member of the Board of Managers of the Genealogical Society 
of Pennsylvania; a vestryman of Christ Church, and a member 
of the Philadelphia Club and of the Germantown Cricket Club. 
373. Sidney Washington Keith,^ born 10 July, 1856; married, 31 October, 
1899, Mary Cummins, daughter of John H. Catherwood by his wife 
Mary Ellen Cummins, and has issue: (374) Sidney Keith,^ born 
at Philadelphia, 5 June, 1901. Mr. Keith was a salesman with Coffin 
and Altemus, and is engaged in the banking business. He is a 
member of the Philadelphia, the Rittenhouse, and the Country 
clubs, and of other organizations. 

258. Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose,^ eldest son of 
Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose ^ by his wife Anne Howard 
Bingham, was born at his father's country seat, near Frankford, 
Philadelphia, 6 October, 1798; died at Harrisburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, 6 April, 1857. ^ portion of his boyhood was spent at 
St. Louis, Missouri, where his father resided for some years after 
his appointment by President Jefferson as a commissioner of the 
Louisiana territory. During the War of 181 2 the son enhsted 
in one of the volunteer companies of St. Louis, but the organiza- 
tion was not called into active service. He returned to Phil- 
adelphia, and there entered on the study of the law under Samuel 
Ewing, Esq., and on 9 May, 1821, was admitted to the bar in 
that city. Shortly afterward he removed to Carhsle, Cumber- 
land County, where he settled in the practice of his profession. 
"Popular manners, legal erudition, close attention to business, 
and admirable oratorical powers, soon secured him a large 
practice," and he rose to a place among the foremost of the 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



eminent jurists of which the bar of Cumberland County was 
then justly proud. 

In early manhood Mr. Penrose became actively identified 
with political affairs, and took a leading part in many of 
the public movements of the day. His fame as an orator 
was such that large demands were made upon him for 
speeches during political campaigns, and frequently he was for 
weeks at a time "on the stump " in various parts of the State. In 
1833 he was elected a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania, 
from the district embracing Cumberland and Perry Counties, 
and was re-elected for a second term of four years in 1837, at 
which time his district embraced Adams, Frankhn, and Cum- 
berland Counties. He remained in the Senate eight years, 
and was one of the most active and distinguished members of 
that body, and during that period there were but few who 
acted a more conspicuous part in the affairs of the Common- 
wealth than did Senator Penrose. He was for four years Speaker 
of the Senate, and was serving as such during the noted " Buck- 
shot War." 

The period of his service was one of unparalleled poUtical 
excitement, and the poHtical controversies of that time were of 
the most bitter character. In his early career, Mr. Penrose was a 
Democrat of the Jefferson school. He warmly supported 
Andrew Jackson for the Presidency, and when first elected to the 
Senate he was chosen as a Democrat, subsequently, however, 
identifying himself with the Whig Party, and as a Whig he was 
overwhelmingly re-elected to the Senate, being voted for not 
only by the Whigs, but by a large portion of the Democrats of his 
district. On account of this change in his party alignment, Mr. 
Penrose was vehemently, viciously, and mahciously assailed by 
the press of the Democratic Party, as well as by the poHticians 
who remained identified with that organization, and he was 
charged with treason to the same, to which attacks Mr. Penrose 
made reply in March, 1839, in one of the most noted speeches 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



ever delivered in the Senate, three days being occupied in its 
delivery. He claimed that he had not changed his principles ; 
that these were then, as they had always been, those of Mr. 
Jefferson, but that the Loco Foco Democracy under Jackson had 
subverted these principles, and that in consequence "the honest 
portion" of Jackson's followers had deserted his standard. A 
few extracts from the speech here follow : 

"The history of General Jackson will present the most remarkable instance 
of numerous promises, professions and principles, no doubt at the time honestly 
made and avowed, but violated and abandoned in succession under the influ- 
ence of the venal flattery of the designing parasites who surround him, 

No eastern potentate ever had more servile slaves. Instead of independent 
opinion, party discipline has substituted the will of the leaders of the party, 

and that will, however contradictory and capricious, must be obeyed 

Such is the discipline of the party; it is black, white, blue, red or green, as the 
leaders may choose to order, whether the order be true or false Presi- 
dent Jackson in his inaugural address, declared, as Jefferson had done, that the 
patronage of the General Government had been brought into conflict with 
elections, and he promised to restore the Government to the simplicity of the 
early ages of the Republic. He promised reform of abuses, and he emphatically 
declared that this reform was inscribed by the people among the first of its 
duties. But instead of reform, abuses increased — instead of a return to the 
purity and simplicity of democratic principles, every day produced some new 
and wider departure from it — instead of restraining the mighty power of the 
executive arm, it was everywhere felt; and absolute submission claimed to 
executive will ;— instead of forbidding the interference of the ofiicers of the 
general government with the freedom of elections, it was quietly encouraged 
and secretly urged, until at last blue-light federalism has come to have so com- 
plete an ascendancy that such interference is not only claimed as a right, but 

enjoined as a duty upon these satraps of power The provisions of 

the constitution were disregarded, and all powers resolved into the will of the 
executive, fenced in by flatterers, and above all control and beyond all check. 
Not only did honest federahsts leave the party, but the Democrats, however 
reluctant to sever past poHtical relations, and however they may have Kngered 

and hesitated, left this party by hundreds and thousands This, sir, is 

the liistory of the latter days of the party, which has driven from its ranks the 
honest Democrats who were once its bone and sinew, and it has now nothing 
left of democracy but the much honored, and long abused name." 

Among the senators of Pennsylvania at the time Mr. Penrose 
made the speech referred to, was the late eminent Frederick 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Fraley, Esq., of Philadelphia. Mr. Fraley addressed the Senate 
just before Mr. Penrose made his speech, and in the course of 
his remarks made reference to the attacks upon Mr. Penrose, 
in the following words : 

"Sirs, I leave Charles B. Penrose, who year after year, and session after 
session, not only defended the principles of the Democratic Party, but the in- 
terests of the Commonwealth on this floor, to his own defence. He needs no 
shield to protect that reputation which he himself is so well able to defend. 
The services which he has rendered the State are well known, and his memory 
will be embalmed in the recollection of the people of Pennsylvania when those 
patriots from the county of Philadelphia, whom the Senator [Brown] has com- 
pared to the Hancocks and the Adamses of the Revolution, have rotted down 
in the niches of infamy, where the virtuous indignation of the people will soon 
place them; and when the malignant feelings of the partizan shall have given 
way to the sober reflections of the statesman, the reputation of Charles B. Pen- 
rose will stand out in characters of undying brilliancy, not only in the bosom of 
his own constituents, but in the Commonwealth which has been honored by his 
birth, and elevated among her confederated sisters by his constant and untiring 
services." 

Mr. Penrose resigned the speakership, 13 March, 1841, on 
which occasion he dehvered an address, which is given in full in 
the Appendix to this work. Six days later he forwarded his 
resignation as a member of the Senate. It reads as follows : 

"Washington City, March 19th, 1841. 
"The Hon. John H. Ewing, 

"Speaker of the Senate of Pennsylvania: 

"Sir: — Having accepted an ofiice under the Government of the United 
States, I hereby resign that of Senator in the Senate of Pennsylvania. 

"I have the honour to be, 

"Very respectfully, 

"Chs. B. Penrose." 

Mr. Penrose was a delegate to the Convention which nomi- 
nated General WiUiam Henry Harrison for the Presidency, and 
during the campaign which followed he was constantly "on the 
stump," in support of General Harrison's election. So promi- 
nent was he in this connection, and so valuable were his services 
in the work of carrying Pennsylvania for the Whig Party, it was 

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Valeria 




&rt6n Biddle, Wife of Honorable Charles Bingham 
Penrose. 



PENROSE FAMILY. 



shield to protect that r 
The servi. a uh*.:' ^e ' 
will be 



J . Mr. Fraley addressed the Senate 
.utide his speech, and in the course of 
ence to the attacks upon Mr. Penrose, 
in the following words : 

"Sirs, I leave Charles B. Penrose, who year after year, and session after 
session, not only defended the principles of the Democratic Party, but the in- 
terests of the Commonwealth on this floor, to his own defence. He needs no 

'•hich he himseK is so well able to defend, 
i the State are well known, and his memory 
n of the people of Pennsylvania when those 
in'iih, whom the Senator [Brown] has com- 
T. s of the Revolution, have rotted down 

' -■■'■' — "•■ •^'-" "--"nple will soon 

i have given 

■ R. Pen- 

.-ora of 

■ !-is 

• ng 

MAHOMia aajaATi'J ajaA^o'/ioH lo S'liV/ ,3jaaitl KOT5ia:j.iu'I AiaaJAV 

Ml in 
. d his 
ows : 

'■ Washington City, March 19th, 1841. 



du: — ii. rnment of the United 

Lt"„ 1 htr ennsylvania. 

.r to be, 
. . , „5pectfully, 

•<Chs. B. Penrose." 

ite to the Convention w i- 

he Presidency, and 
>c.o constantly "on the 
v's election. So promi- 
•n, and so valuable were his services 
in the work of carrying i'cnnsylvania for the Whig Party, it was 

86 



Mr. Pc 
nated Gei 
during th- 
stump," i 
nent was he in thi^ 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



thought by many that Mr. Penrose would be called to a seat in 
President Harrison's cabinet, but, instead of this, he was ap- 
pointed Solicitor to the Treasury, and this is the office to which 
he makes reference in his letter resigning the speakership. 

Mr. Penrose retained the soHcitorship until the close of Presi- 
dent Tyler's administration, and discharged its duties with 
marked ability and fidelity. After he relinquished the position, 
he returned to Pennsylvania, and resumed the practice of the 
law at Lancaster, but removed from that city to Philadelphia in 
1847, 3.nd there became largely engaged in the pursuits of his 
profession. In 1849 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury by Mr. Meredith, but resigned the same in a 
short time and returned to Philadelphia. 

In 1856 he was elected to the Senate as the candidate of the 
People's or Republican Party. His family earnestly opposed 
him re-entering pubhc life, but he accepted the position, and was 
serving as senator at the time of his decease. His death was 
caused by pneumonia, brought on by exposure in a railroad 
accident which happened as he was returning to his post at 
Harrisburg, after a short visit to his family in Philadelphia. 

Mr. Penrose was the projector of the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road, to promote which he labored zealously for some years, and 
of which he was at one time the president. The obstacles the 
enterprise had to contend with were apparently insurmountable, 
and there were not wanting malicious persons to misconstrue 
Mr. Penrose's motives in promoting the work of building the 
road, but he long survived the unjust aspersions made against 
him, and lived to see his favorite project not only accomplished, 
but an acknowledged valuable and lucrative pubhc work. 

Mr. Penrose was one of the compilers of Penrose & Watt's 
three volumes of "Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of 
Pennsylvania" (1831-32), and he was for some years a trustee of 
Dickinson College, and for four years the secretary of the Board 
of Trustees. In the biographical sketch of him, printed in 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



"Men of Mark in Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania," the 
author, Reverend Alfred Nevin, LL.D., wrote: 

"The character of Mr. Penrose was distinguished by many strong and 
prominent points. He was emphatically self-reliant, depending on his own 
resources in the accomplishment of his plans and purposes. The earnestness 
of his temperament was indicated in everything he undertook. Whatever his 
hand found to do, he did it with all his might. Such was the enthusiasm of his 
nature, that it kindled a warm sympathy on all sides in his favor, and greatly 
aided him in carrying forward his life work. To selfishness he was an entire 
stranger. . . . Benevolence beamed in his countenance, and often found 
expression, not in good wishes merely, but in acts of delicate but seasonable 
kindness. His life was simple and frugal. Everything like ostentation was 
shunned by him, and he abhorred self-indulgence of all sorts. His generosity 
was apparent to everybody, amounting almost to a fault. His manner, which 
was highly cultivated, was gentle, courteous, and genial, offensive to none, 
attractive to all. Especially was he gracious to his inferiors, careful of their 
rights, and considerate of their feelings." 

He married, i6 March, 1824, Valeria Fullerton, daughter of 
WiUiam McFunn Biddle * by his wife Lydia Spencer, daughter 
of Reverend Elihu Spencer f ; born at Philadelphia, in January, 
1799; died there, 15 November, 1881. 

* William McFunn Biddle was born McFunn, and added Biddle to his surname by an act 
of the Legislature, to enable him to inherit an estate from his uncle. Honorable Edward Biddle. 
He was a son of Captain William McFunn, an officer in the British Navy, by his wife Lydia 
Biddle, a daughter of William Biddle by his wife Mary, a daughter of Nicholas Scull, the eminent 
surveyor-general of Pennsylvania. William Biddle was a brother of John Biddle, the grandfather 
of Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose, of the text. 

t Reverend Elihu Spencer, born in East Haddam, Connecticut, 12 February, 1721; died in 
Trenton, New Jersey, 27 December, 1784; was graduated at Yale in 1746, and, with a view to 
becoming a missionary to the Indians of the Six Nations, studied their dialect and prepared him- 
self for this office under the Reverends John Brainerd and Jonathan Edwards, accompanying 
the latter to the Indian Conference at .'\lbany in 1748. He was ordained on 14 September, 1748, 
and, after laboring in western New York, was appointed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1750, holding this charge until 1756, when he was called to the Presby- 
terian Church of Jamaica, Long Island. About 1758 he was appointed by Governor James De 
Lancey chaplain of the New York troops, formed for service in the French war, after which he 
labored in the contiguous congregations of Shrewsbury, Middletown Point, Shark River, and 
Amboy, New Jersey. On 29 November, 1775, Congress ordered that two ministers of the gospel 
be applied to, to go immediately amongst the regulators and highlanders of North Carolina for 
the purpose of informing them of the nature of the present dispute between Great Britain and 
the Colonies. Mr. Miller and Reverend Alexander McWhorter were engaged for this purpose. 
From 1769 until his death he was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Trenton, New Jersey. On 
20 October, 1777, Mr. Spencer was elected by Congress, chaplain for the hospitals of the Middle 
Department of the Continental Army. From 1752 until his death he was a trustee of Princeton 

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FIFTH GENERATION. 



Issue, born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania : 

375. William McFunn Penrose,^ born 29 March, 1825 ; died 2 September, 

1872; married Valeria Merchant. 

376. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose," born 24 March, 1827; 

married Sarah Hannah Boies. 

377. Sarah Clementina Penrose,® born 11 October, 1829; died 24 March, 

1897; married William Sergeant Blight, Esq. 

378. Clement Biddle Penrose,® born 27 October, 1832; married Mary 

Linnard. 

379. Lydia Spencer Penrose,® born 3 June, 1835. 

380. Charles Bingham Penrose,® born 29 August, 1838; died 18 September, 

1895; married Clara Andairese. 

259. Clement Biddle Penrose,^ son of Clement Biddle 
Penrose * by his wife Anne Howard Bingham, was born at Phil- 
adelphia, 30 September, 1802; died of yellow fever, about 1839, 
at "Pointe Celeste," the plantation of his father-in-law, near 
New Orleans, Louisiana; married, 3 June, 1830, Anne, eldest 
daughter of Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, and granddaughter of 
Major-General James Wilkinson by his wife Ann Biddle; born 
at Natchez, Mississippi, 25 July, 1808. 

Issue: 

381. Clement Biddle Penrose,® born 5 April, 183 1; died 17 March, 

1859; married Camille Adele Marie Bright. 
381a. Catharine Wilkinson Penrose,® born 18 February, 1833. 

382. Joseph Biddle Wilkinson Penrose,® born 7 March, 1835; died 

in battle, circa 6 April, 1S65. 

383. Ann Howard Penrose,® born 4 March, 1837; died circa 1900; married 

Henry Wilkinson. 

260. Major James Wilkinson Penrose,^ son of Clement 
Biddle Penrose * by his wife Anne Howard Bingham, was born 
in Missouri, in 1808; died at Plattsburg Barracks, New York, 
I January, 1849. He was appointed a cadet at the United States 
Mihtary Academy, i July, 1824, from which he graduated and 

College. In 1782 the University of Pennsylvania gave him the degree of D.D. One of his daugh- 
ters married Honorable Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, an eminent Philadelphia lavyyer, and a 
member of the Continental Congress; and another married Colonel Stephen Lowry, of the Revo- 
lutionary Army. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



became second lieutenant in the 2d Infantry, i July, 1828. In 
1829 he served in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; in 
1829-1832, at Sackett's Harbor, New York; in 1832, at Fort 
Dearborn, Illinois, and in the Black Hawk war against the Sac 
Indians; in 1833, at Fort Dearborn, and at Fort Brady, Michi- 
gan, and from that time until 1836 at Fort Mackinack, Michigan. 
On 3 July, 1836, he was promoted first lieutenant, and was on 
duty in Hancock Barracks, Maine, from 1836 until 1838, in 
which latter year he entered on service in the war in Florida, 
against the Seminole Indians. From 1842 until 1844 he was on 
duty at Plattsburg Barracks. On 11 June, 1846, he was pro- 
moted captain, and was in service that year at Fort Columbus, 
New York Harbor. Here it was that second heutenant (afterward 
General) William Tecumseh Sherman joined from the Military 
Academy, and first reported for duty to Captain Penrose. 

In the war with Mexico, 1847-48, Captain Penrose was in the 
field and engaged in the siege of Vera Cruz, 29 March, 1847; 
battle of Cerro Gordo, 17 April, same year; skirmish of Ocalala, 
16 April, same year, on the 20th of which month he was brevet- 
ted major for meritorious service in the battle of Cerro Gordo. 
He afterward participated in the battles of Cheribusco, Molino 
del Rey, and the capture of the City of Mexico. He was 
wounded at Cerro Gordo, in consequence of which he was 
ordered to Plattsburg Barracks, where he died from the effects 
of the Mexican War. 

He married, at Madison Barracks, New York, 30 December, 
1827, Mary Ann, daughter of General William Hoffman, of the 
United States Army; born 20 December, 1812 ; died 10 Novem- 
ber, 1895. 

Issue : 

384. Clement Biddle Penrose,^ born 8 February, 1831; died 19 March, 

1831. 

385. William Henry Penrose,' born 10 March, 1832; died 29 August, 

1903; married Harriet EUzabelh Adams. 
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Major James Wilkinson Penrose (No. 260). 



TIF PENROSE FAMILY. 



nt in the 2d Infantry, i July, 1828. In 
i8- son at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; in 

1829 s Harbor, New York; in 1832, at Fort 

Dcnrborn, liiinois, and in the Black Hawk war against the Sac 
1. i : 1833, at Fort Dearb 'at Fort Brady, Mi'chi- 

g om that time until 18^ i Mackinack, Michigan. 

On 3 July, 1836, he was promoted first lieutenant, and was on 
duty in Hancock Ban-acks, Maine, from 1836 until 1838, in 
which latter year he entered on service in the war in Florida, 
against the Seminole Indians. From 1842 until 1844 he was on 
duty at Plattsburg Barracks. On 11 June, 1846, he was pro- 
r- " ' " ' imbus, 

rward 
■Jhtary 



ae 



r- 



City of Mexico. He was 
K. ':'nce of which h 

o. .., ..,. . . ...,..,.., .^ , ...... he died from the ....... 

of the Mexican War. 
He married, at Madisor ., New York, 30 December, 

' ' ... William Hoffman, of the 

, i8t2 ; died 10 Novem- 
ber, 1S95. 

Issue : 

384. Clement Bidoii: Penrose,* Ixsm 8 February, 183 1; died 19 March, 

i83t. 

385. WiLtiAM NROSE,' Ix.r;. 10 March, 1832; died 29 August, 

1903; riurried Harriet Elizabeth Adams. 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



386. Catharine Howard Penrose,^ born 7 August, 1834; died 13 October, 

1836. 

387. Catharine Howard Penrose,* born 3 June, 1837; married George B. 

Adams. 

388. Mary Ann Penrose,* born 13 March, 1839; died 26 April, 1867. 

389. James Wilkinson Penrose,® born 19 February, 1842 ; married .Annie 

Townsend. 

390. Anna Bingham Penrose," born 13 April, 1844; married Thomas 

Wallace. S*^ /t > -^-l-<^ V 

3905. Valeria C. Penrose,* born 31 December, 1846; married fcl^'y pJJ B. 
Clinton. 

267, Caleb Lownes Ash,^ son of Joseph Ash by his wife 
Frances Penrose/ was born at Philadelphia, 3 August, 1809; 
died in 1850, He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, in 1847, 
and practiced in the law in that city. In 1849, ^^ company 
with other members of the Philadelphia bar, he started for 
California, to settle some cases growing out of the development 
of that new country. On the way one of the party was stricken 
with yellow fever. Ash was urged to abandon his companion 
and continue the journey, but his nature rebelled at so doing, and 
he remained and nursed his companion to health, but con- 
tracted the disease himself, from which he died. He married, 25 
May, 1836, Bella Maria, daughter of John Ashmead by his wife 
Anna Lehman; born in August, 181 1; died 27 January, 1895. 

Issue : 

391. Francis Penrose Ash,* born 22 April, 1837; died 25 January, 1839. 

392. William Ash,* born in 1843 ; died in infancy. 

393. Joseph Penrose Ash,* born 4 July, 1839; died 8 May, 1864. When 

seventeen years of age he became a member of the First Troop, Phila- 
delphia City Cavalry, and when the news came that Fort Sumter had 
been fired on, he hastened to Washington, and, 18 April, 1861, was 
made first lieutenant in the battalion raised by Cassius M. Clay to 
defend the capital city. For a reconnoissance he made across the 
Potomac into the enemy's lines at great personal peril. President 
Lincoln appointed him second Ueutenant in the regular army, 30 
April, 1861, and he was attached to the Fifth Cavalry. Through 
deeds of conspicuous daring he was promoted first lieutenant and 
captain, and was brevetted major for gallantry in battle at Warrenton, 
Virginia, 8 November, 1862, where he received three sabre-cuts and 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



one bullet. He was brevetted lieutenant -colonel for gallantry at the 
battle of Spottsylvania on 8 May, 1864, where he was killed at the 
head of his troop. The heroic deed that makes his name historic 
occurred in February, 1864, when Ash rode toward the enemy's lines 
on the Rapidan in full view of the enemy to discover their strength. 
The whole army fired at liim, but he was unharmed. Then the 
rebels stopped shooting and cheered him for his bravery. Not to 
be outdone. Ash raised his hat and rode toward the Federal Army 
again. General Wesley Merritt thus spoke of this event: "I 
. thought then, and still think, that it was the bravest deed on the 
part of an individual I ever witnessed. " 

273. Jonathan Penrose Collins,^ son of William Collins 
by his wife Ann Penrose,* was born 19 February, 1815 ; died at 
Laurel, Delaware, 4 June, 1886; married Mary, daughter of 
William Knowles by his wife Sarah Bacon ; born 26 Septem- 
ber, 1826; died 4 January, 1892. 

Issue : 

394. Ann Penrose Collins,' married William Turpin Collins, and had 
issue, (395) Ann Penrose Collins.' 

396. Mary Collins.® 

397. Charles Penrose Collins.* 

398. Harry Penrose Collins.* 

275. Charles Penrose Collins,^ son of WilHam Collins by 
his wife Ann Penrose,* was born 6 April, 1820 ; died i April, 1901 ; 
married, 31 March, 1841, Mary Harper, daughter of George 
Latimer Watt by his wife Margaret Wilhamson ; born 4 July, 
1825; died 23 May, 1902. 

Issue : 

399. Jonathan Penrose Collins,* born 3 April, 1842 ; married, 2 February, 

1864, Esther, daughter of Thomas Davis by his wife Mary Twad- 
dell; born 22 February, 1842. Mr. Collins is Vice-President and 
Title Officer of the West Philadelphia Title and Trust Company. 
Issue: (400) Mary Alice Collins,' born 28 March, 1865; died 
young. 
401. Charles Rowan Collins,* born 13 March, 1844; married, iS 
February, 1867, Hannah Lloyd, daughter of Evans Russell by his 
wife Mary Lloyd. Issue: (402) Harry Penrose Collins,' born 6 
March, 1868. (403) Charles Penrose Collins,' born 13 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 



November, 1871. (405) Mary Russell Collins,'' born 20 July, 
1876. 

406. Alice Latimer Collins," born 20 May, 1847; died 3 May, 185 2. 

407. Ann Penrose Collins," born 13 June, 1850; married, 8 September, 

1873, B. Frank Peirson. Issue: (408) Martha Francis Peirson,^ 
born 22 April, 1875. (409) B. Frank Peirson,^ born 20 May, 1880. 
410. Mary Alice Collins," born 15 October, 1852; married, 13 June, 1873, 
James A. Stovell. Issue: (411) Mary Alice Stovell,' born i 
June, 1874. (412) John Penrose Stovell,^ born 2 July, 1877. 
(413) James Stovell,^ born 23 May, 1S80. 

414. Harry Graham Collins," born 25 February, 1856; died 4 August, 

1856. 

415. William Thomas Collins," born 17 March, 1863; married, 31 March, 

1886, AHce Rohrman. Issue : (416) Marietta R. Collins,^ born 26 
September, 1887. 




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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 




304. Sally Robinson Perkins,^ daughter 
of Abraham Robinson Perkins by his wife 
Margaret Rowan Penrose,^ was born at 
Philadelphia, 26 January, 1835; died at 
Villa Nova, Pennsylvania, 17 April, 1901 ; 
married, 30 November, 1859, Levi Taylor 
Rutter, son of Clement Stocker Rutter by his wife Letitia 
Brown; born 11 December, 1832 ; died 26 October, 1871. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

417. Clement Stocker Rutter,' born 12 November, i860; married, 15 
September, 1893, Elizabeth Archer Ashbridge; born 18 November, 
1867. Issue: (418) Clement Stocker Rutter,* Jr., born 17 July, 
1894. (419) Richard Ashbridge Rutter,* born 27 April, 1897. 

420. Margaret Perkins Rutter,' born 25 July, 1862 ; married, 19 January, 
1887, Morris Wistar Stroud, son of William Daniel Stroud by his wife 
Charlotte Wistar Beesley ; born 14 May, 1S60. Issue : (421) Morris 
Wistar Stroud,* Jr., born 12 June, 1888. (422) William Daniel 
Stroud,* born 20 November, 1891. 

423. Robert Lewis Rutter,' born 31 January, 1867; married, 23 February, 
1892, Sarah Isabel Page. Issue: (424) Frances Rutter,* born 
27 October, 1892. (425) Robert Lewis Rutter,* Jr., born 10 
November, 1894. (426) Carol Penrose Rutter,* born i Septem- 
ber, 1896. 

306. Charles Penrose Perkins," son of Abraham Robin- 
son Perkins ^ by his wife Margaret Rowan Penrose, was bom at 
Philadelphia, 2 October, 1844. He graduated at the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1863; studied civil engineering at the Rens- 
selaer Institute, Troy, New York, from which he graduated in 
1866. He was for twenty years connected with the civil en- 
gineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He retired 
from active business in 1893. He is a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers, the Historical, Genealogical, and 
Colonial societies of Pennsylvania, the Art Club, and the Merion 
Cricket Club. He married, 13 November, 1878, Helen Arm- 
strong, daughter of John Armstrong Wright by his wife Emma 
Meminger Gano; born 31 July, 1848. 

94 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

427. Emma Meminger Perkins/ born 25 November, 1879; died 3 March, 

1883. 

428. Rowan Penrose Perkins,' born 24 August, 1884. 

429. Mary Hawthorn Perkins,' born i April, 1888. 

310, Major William Wayne,^ son of Isacher Evans by his 
wife Mary Wayne Atlee,^ and great-grandson of Major-General 
Anthony Wayne, was born in WiUistown Township, Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, 6 December, 1828; died at his ancestral 
home " Waynesborough, " near Paoli, 20 November, 1901. His 
name was changed by Act of Assembly to Wilham Wayne. He 
was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, taking a course 
in arts and a partial course in medicine, and was graduated in 
1846. He at once took charge of the family estate and gave 
this business his undivided attention until President Lincoln, 
in 1 86 1, issued his first call for three years' troops, whereupon 
Major Wayne relinquished his business, raised a company which 
became Company " K" (Wayne Guards), 97th Regiment, Penn- 
sylvania Infantry, with which he served through the operations 
of 1862, the expedition to Warsaw Sound, Ga. ; Fort CHnch, 
Fernandina and Jacksonville, Florida ; Edisto, John and James 
Islands, South Carolina, and during part of the October cam- 
paign of that year, at Hilton Head, South Carolina. In Septem- 
ber, 1862, he was detailed on recruiting service, and returned to 
Pennsylvania. His health having suffered from exposure and 
cHmatic influences, and being unable to return to duty, he 
tendered his resignation and received an honorable discharge 
from the service by order of the Secretary of War, Special Order 
No. 24, January 19, 1863. After the war he was appointed to 
the Staff of General Dobson of the National Guards of Penn- 
sylvania, with the rank of major. Major Wayne served as a 
representative from Chester County in the lower house of the 
Legislature from 1881 to 1886, and was a member of various 
important committees. With the exception of his military and 

95 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



political service, Major Wayne passed his life quietly as a coun- 
try gentleman on the great estate that has been in the possession 
of the Wayne family for nearly two hundred years. 

Upon the death of Major Wayne's grandfather, Colonel Isaac 
Wayne, he, in 1855, was admitted to membership in the State 
Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, as the legal representa- 
tive of General Wayne. In 1887 he was elected the President of 
that society, and in 1896 the President- General of the Society 
of Cincinnati. He was one of the organizers and charter mem- 
bers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and 
became its first president, which position he held until within a 
few months of his death, when, on account of failing health, he 
declined re-election. Besides his membership in these societies, 
he was a member and sometime President of the Society of 
Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and a 
member of the Society of the War of 181 2, the Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, the United Service Club, the Hibernian Society, 
and of the Masonic fraternity. He also served for a time upon 
the Valley Forge Park Commission by appointment of the 
Governor of the Commonwealth. He was also a communicant 
of St. David's at Radnor, in whose ancient burial-ground his 
remains were laid to rest with those of his ancestors. 

He married, i March, 1853, Hannah J., daughter of David 
Zook; born 18 November, 1827; died 27 August, 1899. 

Issue : 

429a. Mary Atlee WayneJ born 21 January, 1854; married, 26 April, 1877. 
John M. Wirgman, born 17 July, 1849, and by him had: (429^) Wil- 
liam Wayne Wirgman,^ born 24 March, 1878. 

429C. William Wayne,' born 27 August, 1855 ; was elected a member of the 
Pennsylvania legislature, from Chester County, in 1902 ; married, 23 
April, 1883, Mary Valentine, born in 1859, and by her had issue: 
(429'') William Wayne,* born February, 1884, and (4291^) Edith 
Wayne,* born 12 November, 1889. 

319. Mary Needles Penrose,^ daughter of Thomas Nor- 

96 



Dr. Thomas Neall Penrose (No. 320). 






THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



.> . , Major Wayne passed his life quietly as a coun- 

ieman on the great estate that has been in the possession 
• jt the Wayne family for nearly two hundred years. 

Up >n the death of Major Wayne's grandfather, Colonel Is" p - 
VV;_Yne, he, in 1855, was admitted to membership in the S 
Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, as the legal representa- 
tive of General Wayne. In 1887 he was elected the President of 
that society, and in 1896 the President- General of the Society 
'^f Cincinnati . He was one of the organizers and charter mem- 
\he Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and 

'iion he held lintil within a 
■/■nnf of f:A^]x]i>- bf';^Ub. he 



.(o£{; .oM) aaoHMal jJAaM samohT .aQ 



snent of the 

also a communicant 

uicient burial-ground his 

__. .... ., i his ancestors. 

He married, i March, 1853, Hannah J., daughter of David 
Zook; bom 18 "November, 1827; died 27 August, 1899. 

Issue : 

429a. Mary ^ born 21 January, 1854; married, 26 April, 1S77. 

Joh: :x)rn 1 7 July, 1849, ^"'^ by him had : (429**) WiL- 

LiA.v -. s , "'^ arch, 1878. 

420^^. Will: "55; was elected a member of the 

Pern ! Jiiester County, in 1902 ; married, 23 

Apr ;rn in 1859, and by her had issue: 

(421 !:ruary, 1884, and (4296) Edith 
Wa . 

319. Mary Needles Pen'Rose,'* daughter of Thomas Nor- 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



wood Penrose ^ by his wife Jane Glading, was born at Philadel- 
phia, I December, 1832; married (i), 24 September, 1863, 
William H. Weatherby, who died 25 January, 1872; (2), 15 
December, 1878, the late Charles McCaul, a prominent builder 
of Philadelphia. 

Issue, b)' first husband : 

430. Jane Elizabeth Weatherby,' born 2 February, 1866; died 7 Novem- 

ber, 1867. 

431. Mary Needles Weatherby,' born 19 January, 1868. Professor of 

English in the Girls' Normal School, Philadelphia. 

432. William Henry Weatherby,' born 21 October, 1871; died 21 May, 

1872. 

320. Medical Director Thomas Neall Penrose,** son of 
Thomas Norwood Penrose ^ by his wife Jane Glading, was born 
at Philadelphia, 6 June, 1835; died there, 13 February, 1902. 
He graduated from the Medical Department of the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1858, and subsequently received the degree of 
Ph.D. from that institution. On i November, 1861, he was 
commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States Navy ; was 
promoted past assistant surgeon, 28 June, 1864, and medical 
director, 30 January, 1890. Upon entering the Navy he was 
placed on duty at the Washington navy-yard, where he remained 
until February, 1862, when he was ordered to the warship 
"Harriet Lane," in which vessel he became attached to Admiral 
Farragut's fleet. He participated in the attack upon forts 
Jackson and St. PhiHp, at New Orleans, and was with the fleet 
when, on 24 April, 1862, it passed up the river between the forts. 
He was with the fleet at the battle of Vicksburg, and in other en- 
gagements on the river, and also participated in the capture of 
Galveston, Texas, where the "Harriet Lane" engaged single- 
handed the rebel rams, "Bayou City" and "Neptune," sinking 
the latter. The "Bayou City, " after the third attempt to do so, 
succeeded in boarding the "Harriet Lane, " and the commanding 
officer, the executive officer, and all the deck officers save one, of 
7 97 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



the "Harriet Lane," were either killed or wounded, and all 
others were taken prisoners, Surgeon Penrose among the num- 
ber. He was compelled to walk from Galveston to Alexander, 
Louisiana, and was there placed on a prison ship. After his 
release he was ordered to the "Massachusetts," to convey the 
wounded from the fleet off Charleston, South Carohna, to north- 
ern hospitals. He was later engaged in cruising off the West In- 
dies, South America, Europe, Japan, China, East Indies, Java, 
Africa, and other places in various ships, and in the "Levant " he 
visited Constantinople, Smyrna, and along the coast of Syria. 

Surgeon Penrose was on duty at the Naval Hospital in Phil- 
adelphia from 1872 until 1874; served as a member of the Navy 
Medical Examining Board from 1880 until 1882, and from 1893 
until 1894 was in command of the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, 
Virginia. He was retired from the Navy in 1895, on account of 
limitation of age, at which time he was on duty superintending 
the construction of the Naval Hospital at New York. 

He married, 3 June, 1863, Margaret Ann, daughter of James 
and Mary Stewart ; born at Lewistown, Mifflin County, Penn- 
sylvania, 16 August, 1837. 

Issue: 

433. Thomas Norwood Penrose,' born 26 March, 1865 ; graduated at Yale 

University in 1887; afterward entered the law department of Colum- 
bia University, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1889, and 
was admitted to practice at the New York bar. 

434. Charles Williams Penrose,' born 3 November, 1872. He was pre- 

pared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and 
graduated at Yale University in 1896. 

327. Mary Ann Anderson,^ daughter of WiUiam von Albade 
Anderson by his wife Ann Pinkerton Penrose,^ was born at 
Philadelphia, 25 May, 1828; died at Wilmington, Delaware, 7 
March, 1901 ; married, 22 April, 1850, Jesse Williamson, Jr.; 
born II August, 1822 ; died 30 May, 1854; son of Peter WiUiam- 
son by his wife Lurana C. Tittermary. At the time of her 
marriage she dropped the name Ann. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Issue : 

435. William von Albade Williamson,' born 20 March, 185 1; died 23 
February, 1898; married, 30 April, 1878, Maria Elizabeth, daughter 
of Samuel 'McLean by his wife Maria Williams. He entered the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1873, but left in his junior year; studied 
law at the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and 
was graduated LL.B., in 1874; was deputy clerk of the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals of the second Circuit of Pennsylvania. 
Issue: (436) Loraine Penrose Williamson,* born 18 June, 1879; 
married, 20 January, 1900, Lloyd Duval Smoot. (437) Jesse Wil- 
liamson,* born 28 March, 1881. (438) Basil Maturin William- 
son,* born 24 December, 1884. 

439. Jesse Williamson,' born 26 April, 1853; married, 30 April, 1883, 
Sophia Watmough, daughter of Honorable M. Russell Thayer, of 
Philadelphia, by his wife Sophia Watmough; born at Chestnut Hill, 
Philadelphia, 22 June, 1859. Dr. Williamson entered the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1869, and left college at the close of his freshman 
year; then studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, and 
was graduated M.D. in 1873. He is a fellow of the College of Physi- 
cians, and is practicing in his profession at Wilmington, Delaware. 
Issue: (440) Sophia W.^TMOUGH Williamson,* born 23 May, 1884. 
(441) Mary Eleanor Williamson,* born 16 October, 1885. (442) 
Katharine Buckley Williamson,* born 2 October, 1887. (443) 
Jessie Williamson,* born 30 May, 1894. 

363. Anna Penrose Buckley,^ daughter of Clement Adam 
Buckley by his wife Sarah Penrose,^ and now living in Philadel- 
phia, married, 10 i\.pril, 1856, John Smith Newbold; born at 
Philadelphia, 20 February, 1831, and died there, 2 June, 1887; 
son of William Henry Newbold by his wife Calebina Emlen. 
John Smith Newbold was a banker and note and stock broker, 
being a member for many years of the firm of W. H. Newbold 
Son & Aertsen, of which his father was the senior partner. He 
was a director of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, the 
Insurance Company of North America, and the Library Com- 
pany of Philadelphia; a vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal. 
Church, and at the time of his death he was a vestryman of 
Christ Church, Philadelphia, and warden of the Church of Our 
Saviour, Jenkintown, Montgomery County. He was also in- 
terested in the m£L;i8|ecnent of many charitable and social in- 
stitutions. 

99 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Issue, born at Philadelpliia : 

444. Clement Buckley Newbold,^ born 25 July, 1857; married, 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1897, Mary Dickinson, daughter of Colonel Thomas A. 
Scott by his wife Anna Dike Riddle; born 21 January, 1876. He 
entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1873, but left college in 
his junior year. He is a member of the banking and stock brokerage 
firm of W. H. Newbold's Son & Company, and a vestryman of 
Christ Church. Issue: (445) Mary Dickinson Newbold,^ born 
12 November, 1898. (445a) Anna Scott Newbold,* born 19 
March, 1903. 

446. Arthur Emlen Newbold,^ born 5 September, 1859; married, 25 
February, 1886, Harriet, daughter of Fitz Eugene Dixon by his 
wife Catharine Chew Dallas; born 3 February, 1866. He is a 
member of the firm of W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., and a director 
of various institutions. Issue: (447) Anna Buckley Newbold,* 
born 28 April, 1887. (448) Arthur Emlen Newbold,* born 3 
July, 1888. (449) Harriet Catharine Newbold,* born 3 Novem- 
ber, 1889. (450) Fitz Eugene Dixon Newbold,* born 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1895. (451) Dorothy Emlen Newbold,* born 8 March, 
1899. 

452. Ellen Grubb NEVk^BOLD,' born 9 December, i860; died 21 March, 

1864. 

453. Emily Buckley Newbold,' born 13 April, 1865; married, 29 April, 

1891, Dr. William Johnson Taylor, son of Major William Johnson 
Taylor by his wife Mary Eliza Bearden; born 13 October, 1861. 
Issue: (454) Phebe Emlen Taylor,** born 3 March, 1892; died 19 
March, 1894. (455) Clement Newbold Taylor,^ born 13 Septem- 
ber, 1893. (456) Marion Taylor,^ born 9 March, 1895. (457) 
William Johnson Taylor,* Jr., born 3 July, 1896. (457?^ 
Francis Henry Taylor,* born 23 April, 1903. 

458. Penrose Buckley Newbold,' born i November, 1868; died i March, 

1870. 

459. Anna Buckley Newbold,' born 3 January, 1871; married, 29 April, 

1896, Beauveau Borie, Jr., son of Beauveau Borie by his wife Patty 
Neill; born 25 September, 1874. Issue: (460) Patty Borie,* born 
I January, 1898. 
461. John Sergeant Newbold,' born 2 October, 1874; married, 4 January, 
1902, Virginia Mason, daughter of Mason Campbell by his wife 
Eulalie Keating. 

367. Eliza Penrose,® eldest child of John Rowan Penrose '^ 
by his wife Anna Maria Burton, was born at Philadelphia, 20 
March, 1839; died there, 6 February, 1902; married, 26 March, 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



1856, William Cochran, son of William G. Cochran by his wife 
Elizabeth Listen Travis. Mr. Cochran was for many years 
engaged in business as an importer of wines and cigars, being a 
member of the well-known firm of T. & W. Cochran, his 
brother, Travis Cochran, being his partner. He retired from 
business some years ago. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

462. William Greene Cochran,' born 17 December, 1857; married, 6 
June, 1888, Gertrude Louisa, daughter of S. Wilmer Cannell by his 
wife Sarah Niverson Skipwith; born 2 October, 1866. Issue: (463) 
Anne Cannell Cochran,* born 15 November, 1889. (464) 
William Cochtian,* born 6 October, 1891. (465) Travis Cochran,^ 
born 30 November, 1893; died 4 January, 1897. (466) Peyton 
Skipwith Cochran,^ born 19 February, 1897. 

467. Harriet Penrose Cochran,' born 5 November, i860; married, 24 
January, 1883, John Richard Suydam, of New York, son of John 
Richard Suydam by his wife Ann Middleton Lawrence. Issue : 
(468) John Richard Suydam,* born 9 May, 1886. (469) Lisa 
Suydam,* born 25 May, 1890. 

368. Anna Rowan Penrose,® daughter of John Rowan Pen- 
rose ^ by his wife Anna Maria Burton, was born at Philadelphia, 
29 November, 1840, and is now living at West Chester, Penn- 
sylvania. She married (i), 28 November, 1859, John C. Ral- 
ston, son of George Ralston by his wife Levisa Smith. Mr. 
Ralston died 2 December, 1866, and she married (2), 29 June, 
1870, Colonel Francis Carpenter Hooten, of West Chester. 
Colonel Hooten was Drafting Commissioner for Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, in 1862 ; Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 
One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the 
Civil War; elected District Attorney for Chester County in 1866 ; 
a Presidential Elector in 1868, and chairman of the Republican 
State Committee in 1879 and 1880. 

Issue by first husband: 

470. Anna Maria Ralston,' born 30 November, i860; now living at West 
Chester; married, 21 February, 1878, Charles Frederick Jones ; born 
25 November, 1849; died 10 Novemiber, 1897. Issue: (471) Char- 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



LOTTE Frederica Jones/ bom 3 January, 1879. (472) John 
Ralston Jones,* born 14 October, 1880. (473) Elliot Penrose 
Jones,* born 6 November, 1883. 
Issue by second husband : 

474. Mary Penrose Hooten,' born 22 October, 1872; married 8 January, 

1902, David Trumbull Lanman Robinson, who died 19 September, 
1902. 

369. Ellen Penrose,® third daughter of John Rowan Pen- 
rose ^ by his wife Anna Maria Burton, was born at Philadelphia, 
29 October, 1844; now living at Baltimore, Maryland; married 
(i), 4 June, 1863, Thomas Swann, son of Governor Thomas 
Swann, of Maryland, by his wife Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock; 
died 7 August, 1866; (2), 3 July, 1880, Honorable Ferdinand C. 
Latrobe, of Baltimore, Maryland, son of John H. B. Latrobe by 
his wife Charlotte Virginia Claiborne. Mr. Latrobe is a prom- 
inent member of the Baltimore bar, and has been six times 
chosen Mayor of that city. 

Issue by first husband: 

475. Thomas Swann,' born 3 October, 1864; died 16 March, 1896; married, 

31 December, 1887, Carita Douglass, daughter of Dr. J. Frank 
Mason, of Loudon County, Virginia, by his wife Carohne Roderiquez. 
Mrs. Swann, died 11 March, 1889. Issue: (476) Thomas Swann,* 
born 17 February, 1889. 

477. Sherlock Swann,' born 27 December, 1866; married, 30 November, 

1898, Edith Robinson, daughter of Thomas De Ford, of Baltimore, 
by his wife Sarah William Bell. Issue: (477a) Sherlock Swann," 
born 30 September, 1900. 
Issue by second husband: 

478. Charlotte Fernande Latrobe,' born 3 June, 1881. 

479. Ellen Virginia Latrobe,' born 6 January, 1883. 

480. Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe,' born 15 March, 1889. 

371. Walter Elliot Penrose,® son of John Rowan Pen- 
rose ^ by his wife Anna Maria Burton, was born at Philadelphia, 
21 November, 1841 ; died there, 8 November, 1891 ; married, 
9 April, 1874, Emily, daughter of Lucian Peters Thompson by 
his wife Caroline Burling. Mr. Penrose was a member of the 
First City Troop. 



Colonel William McFunn Penrose (No. 375). 



(Hi: pf:nrose family. 



Jo\'KS,* born 3 January, 1879. (472) John 
I October, 1880. (473) Elliot Penrose 
.r, 1883. 

... HooTEN," born 22 October, 1872; married 8 January, 
id Trumbull Lanman Robinson, who died 19 September, 



io»:: " by hiL. 

jQ October, 1844; n 



;l;tcr 01 ■ 

, wasboi: 

at Baltimore, Maryland ; married 
^m, son of Governor Th'" 

ble Fer' 



.(?t^ .oM) aaoawa'T mviuIoM waijjiW jano.ioD 



born 17 February, 18S9. 



"-arried, 30 November, 

e Ford, of Baltimore, 

;477'^) Sherlock Swann,' 



47'>- ' 
480. F; .1,.. 

371. Wa 

rose ^ by hi.- - 

21 November, 1841 
9 April, 1874, I 
his wife Carolii-r 
First City Troo;;. 



>rv / \vva ^ Tune, i8Si. 
:>% 1883. 
...„-, .. - j March, 1889. 

')f John 
.,...- bom at , ^ 
ere, 8 November^ 1891 ; married, 
er of Lucian Peters Thompson by 
Mr. Penrose was a member o? '■^■- 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

481. John Rowan Penrose,' born 12 December, 1875; died 29 March, 
1885. 

4S2. Emily Christine Penrose,' born 28 November, 1877; married, 30 
April, 1901, Adolph George Rosengarten, manufacturer, and served 
in Spanish War in First City Troop; son of Harry Bennett Rosen- 
garten by his wife Clara Johanna Knorr. 

483. Charles Penrose,' born 24 January, 1S86. 

375. Colonel William McFunn Penrose,® eldest son of 
Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose^ by his wife Valeria Fuller- 
ton Biddle, was born in Carhsle, Pennsylvania, 29 March, 
1825; died 2 September, 1872. He graduated at Dickinson 
College in July, 1844, and at once devoted himself to the study 
of law, and two years after he had received his degree of A.B., 
entered upon his chosen profession in his native place. He 
rapidly secured reputation and practice, and soon became a 
leader at a Bar celebrated for its learning and abihty. 

At the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Penrose joined the 
Pennsylvania Reserves, and was elected Colonel of the Sixth 
Regiment. His constitution, however, was entirely unfitted 
for the exposure of the camp, and he laid there the foundation 
of the indisposition which eventually cut short his life at an 
early age. After participating in the active campaign, and 
distinguishing himself at the battle of Drainsville, one of the 
first successes on our side of the war, he was obliged to resign 
on account of severe ill health, from which he never entirely 
recovered. 

In the community in which he lived. Colonel Penrose was 
universally beloved for his many noble quahties. Generous to 
a fault, and with a heart full of sympathy for the weaknesses 
and suffering of others, his aid and counsel were sought by great 
numbers of people totally unable ever to remunerate him for 
his professional services. As a lawyer he was learned, quick in 
his perceptions, cogent in argument, highly gifted as a speaker, 
and very successful. 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



His demise was greatly deplored. The entire bar assembled 
in the court-room to pay a tribute to his memory. The Honor- 
able James H. Graham, Judge Junkin, A. B. Sharpe, Esq., 
R. M. Henderson, H. C. Herman, Lemuel Todd, W. H. Miller, 
and C. E. Maglaughlin, Esq., eulogized in strongest terms the 
personal qualities, social virtues, and professional ability of the 
lamented dead. Judge Graham referred to the deceased as 
"the kind and amiable Penrose, removed in the prime of his 
life, in the midst of his usefulness, and in the enjoyment of a 
large and lucrative practice, well merited by a hfe of untiring 
labor and research in acquiring a knowledge of legal science 
surpassed by few of his age." And Judge Junkin said, "his 
astuteness, vigor of thought, and keenness of perception in 
grasping the result of a principle, and then wielding it with a 
steady hand, I have never seen surpassed." * 

The meeting which subsequently, as a body, attended the 
funeral of their brother, unanimously expressed their opinion 
and feeling of his character and worth as follows : 

" Resolved, That by indefatigable industry, unremitting devotion to the study 
of the law, united with a calm temper, and uniform courtesy of manner, this 
able lawyer has left behind him a reputation which will long live in the recollec- 
tions of the Bar and the community." 

"Resolved, That we feel with deep sensibility the loss we have sustained by 
the death of Mr. Penrose, who has for a quarter of a century been actively 
engaged in his profession in our midst, for whose professional attainments we 
entertain the highest respect, and for whose estimable qualities we have the 
most profound regard." 

He married, July, 1858, Valeria, daughter of General Charles 
Merchant, U. S. A. 

Issue, born at Carlisle: 

483^. Sarah Merchant Penrose. 
483*. Valeria Biddle Penrose. 
483<^. Ellen Williams Penrose. 
483*^. Virginia Merchant Penrose. 

* See " Men of Mark in the Cumberland Valley," 449. 
104 



Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose (No. 376). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Jemise was greatly deplored. The entire bar assembled 
in the court- room to pay a tribute to his memory. The Honor 
ah) ' ■" Graham, Judge Junkin, A. B. Sharpe, Esq., 

R, n, H. C. Herman, Lemuel Todd, W. H. Miller, 

ar> iaughlin, Esq., eulogized in strongest terms the 

pt. alities, social virtues, and professional ability of the 

la: ' T..j_^ Graham referred to the deceased as 

"ic . Penrose, removed in the prime of his 

life, in the raifist of his useifulness, and in the enjoyment of a 

'] merited by a hfe of untiring 

...., a knowledge of legal science 

" And Judge Junkin said, "his 

i.ption in 

•ith a 



,: >„ M;ii the 



'•e study 

•:•-. this 

. -.a The recollec- 

we have sustained by 

1 century been actively 

M?be professional attainments we 

,^._^„ ^ ..._..„. 'sLim:ibl>- dualities we have the 

most profound regard." 

He married, July, 1858, Valeria, daughter of General Charles 
Merchant, U. S. A. 

Issue, V> 

483^^. >Si:. 

483*. Valeria e. 

483'. VrTw: V 



rland Valley," 449. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



376. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose,® M.D., 
LL.D., son of Honorable Charles Bingham Penrose ^ by his 
wife Valeria Fullerton Biddle,was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 
24 March, 1827. He was graduated at Dickinson College in 
1846, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of 
Laws in 1872. After completing his college course, he entered 
upon the study of medicine at the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated at the same in 
1849. From 1851 until 1853 he was resident physician at the 
Pennsylvania Hospital; in 1853 he became physician to the 
Southern Home for Children, and in 1854 consulting physician 
at the Philadelphia Hospital, where he delivered cHnical lectures 
on diseases of women and children. Here it was that Dr. Pen- 
rose first distinguished himself as a medical teacher. In 1856 
he was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital, and con- 
tributed to its success much of his time, energy, and pecuniary 
resources. He was for a number of years a successful private 
teacher of medicine, and his private course of lectures was largely 
attended. 

In 1863 the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania elected 
him to the professorship of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women 
and Children, made vacant by the resignation of the illustrious 
Dr. Hugh L. Hodge, which chair he filled with great distinction 
until 1889, when he voluntarily retired from the position, and at 
the same time gave up active practice in medicine. Dr. Penrose 
always attracted very large classes of students, who listened to 
his lectures with the closest and most absorbed attention, and 
his bearing toward them was always dignified, graceful, and 
affectionate. On 6 October, 1873, he delivered a discourse 
commemorative of the fife of Dr. Hugh L. Hodge, his predeces- 
sor, before the trustees, professors, and students of the medical 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, which discourse 
was pubhshed in pamphlet form. 

Dr. Penrose had a large private practice. During the Civil 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



War he served as Surgeon at the Satterlee Hospital, this being 
one of the largest and most important of the army hospitals in 
Philadelphia. He has been a member of the College of Phys- 
icians since 1854; was one of the founders of the Hospital of the 
University of Pennsylvania, as well as of the Gynaecean Hospital 
of Philadelphia, and is a member of the American Philosophical 
Society, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 

He married, 28 September, 1858, Sarah Hannah, daughter of 
Jeremiah Smith Hubbard Boies, by his wife Mary Frances 
Caroline Thomas; born at "Rockland," Cecil County, Mary- 
land, 31 March, 1834; died of pneumonia at Philadelphia, 30 
March, 1881. Mrs. Penrose was a woman of rare culture and 
refinement, of unusual intelligence and phenomenal and magni- 
ficent beauty. She became the mother of seven sons. At a 
very early period of her married life she abandoned entirely 
society and devoted herself exclusively to the education of her 
children, and this she kept up until her death in 1881 — a few 
months before her two eldest sons graduated from Harvard 
University with highest honors, honors due, in a great measure, 
to their mother's untiring devotion to them. She came of the 
best blood of Maryland and Massachusetts. Her father was a 
son of Judge WiUiam Hubbard,* and added Boies to his name 
after he was adopted by an uncle, Jeremiah Smith Boies, a 
prominent and wealthy merchant of Boston. Judge Hubbard 
was a descendant of William Hubbard, who was one of the first 
graduating class at Harvard College in 1642. Mrs. Penrose's 
mother was born at Rockland, Maryland, and was a daughter of 
PhiHp Thomas, Jr., by his wife Sarah Margaret Weems, and the 
great-great-great-granddaughter of Honorable Philip Thomas, 
who died in Maryland, in 1675, and was a member of the 



* Judge William Hubbard, the grandfather of Mrs. Penrose, married, 4 July, 1790, Benjamina 
Woodbridge, daughter of Dr. Joseph Clarke by his wife Isabella Elizabeth VVoodbridge, 
daughter of Abel AUeyne, of Quincy, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Thomas Alleyne 
by his wife Mary, daughter of Honorable Dudley Woodbridge," who was graduated at Harvard 

106 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Governor's Council of that Province; she was also in the 
same degree of descent from Colonel Samuel Chew, also a mem- 
ber of the Governor's Council, and the ancestor of Chief Justice 
Benjamin Chew, of Pennsylvania. 

Issue, all born at Philadelphia: 

484. Boies Penrose ^ ; died in infancy. 

485. Boies Penrose,' born i November, i860. 

486. Charles Bingham Penrose,' born i February, 1862 ; married Katha- 

rine Drexel. 

487. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose,' Jr., born 17 December, 

1863 

488. Spencer Penrose,' born 2 November, 1865. 

489. Francis Boies Penrose,' born 2 August, 1867. 

490. Philip Thomas Penrose,' born 10 March, 1869; died at El Paso, 

Texas, 8 June, 1901. 

377. Sarah Clementina Penrose,® daughter of Honorable 
Charles Bingham Penrose,^ by his wife Valeria Fullerton Biddle, 
was born at CarHsle, Pennsylvania, 11 October, 1829; died at 
Philadelphia, 24 March, 1897 ; married, September, 1854, 
William Sergeant BHght, son of George Wain Blight by his wife 
Mary Sergeant. Mr. Blight was born 17 December, 1826; 



College in i6q6, and became the director-general of the Royal Asciento Company of England, 
and agent of the South Sea Company in Barbadoes, and also judge-advocate-general of that Island. 



''Dudley Woodbridge was a son of Reverend Benjamin Woodbridge, and grandson of Rev- 
erend John Woodbridge, who was bred at Oxford; came to America in 1634, and was ordained 
minister of the church at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1635, and later became a member of the 
Governor's Council of Massachusetts. He was a younger brother of Benjamin Woodbridge, 
who was a graduate with William Hubbard in the first class at Harvard in 1692. The Reverend 
John Woodbridge married Mercy, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley." 



"Governor Dudley was eminent among the early Massachusetts colonists. He was a son 
of Captain Roger Dudley, of the English Array, and descended from the Barons of Dudley. He 
was born in Northampton, England, in 1576; at twenty, was commissioned captain by Queen 
Elizabeth, and led his company ' ' of the Northampton gallants over to the siege of Amiens, in 
Picardy." He became a zealous Puritan, and was for many years the steward of the fourth Earl 
of Lincoln. In 1630 he was chosen deputy-governor of Massachusetts, and came with Governor 
Winthrop to that colony in the same year. In 1634, and again in 1640, 1645, and 1650, he was 
elected governor, and in 1644 was chosen commander-in-chief of the military forces of the colony, 
with the title of major-general. From the time of his arrival in Massachusetts, until his death, 
31 December, 1653, when not governor, he served either as deputy-governor, or as a member of 
the Governor's Council of Assistants. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



died 9 May, 1903; was graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1846, and was for some years vice-president of 
the Alumnae Society, College Department. He was also for 
many years the secretary and treasurer of the Ridge Avenue 
Passenger Railway Company, and a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. 

Issue : 

491. Charles Penrose Blight,' born 8 October, 1855; died 4 July, 1895; 

graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1876, and was ad- 
mitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1879. He was a member of the 
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. 

492. WiLLi.\M Sergeant Blight,' born 7 March, 1858; was graduated at 

the University of Pennsylvania in 1878; admitted to the Philadelphia 
bar in 1880, and afterward established Blight's School for Boys, at 
Philadelphia, of which he is the Head-master, and professor of Latin 
and Greek. He married, 6 December, 1890, Corneha Taylor, 
daughter of Isaac Oliver Blight by his wife Matilda P. Harris. 

493. Elihu Spencer Blight,' born 11 November, i860; was graduated 

at the University of Pennsylvania in 1881, and is a member of the 
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution and of the University 
Club. 

494. Lydia Spencer Blight,' born 26 April, 1863; married, 7 December, 

1886, John F. Hageman, Esq., who died at Princeton, New Jersey, i 
July, 1893. He was a member of the New Jersey bar. 

378. Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose,^ son of Honor- 
able Charles Bingham Penrose ^ by his wife Valeria FuUerton 
Biddle, was born at Carhsle, Pennsylvania, 27 October, 1832. 
He remained in Carlisle until 1841, when his father was ap- 
pointed Sohcitor of the Treasury, and removed his family to 
Washington, D. C, where they resided until 1845, when they 
returned to Pennsylvania. He was graduated at the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1850; read law with his father, and, 19 
November, 1853, was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, and 
there successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, until 
he became one of the judges of the Orphans' Court of Philadel- 
phia County, to which position he was appointed, 30 January, 
1878, by Governor Hartranft, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

108 



Honorable Clement Biddle PenroSI' (No. 378). 



•^E FAMILY. 



uiaauatv.!: <•..' ;iiv. t. ■ ■ 1 1 v CFsit}' of 

s\as for some years \'ice-president of 
ihf- Alumna? Society, College Department. He was also for 
n\ ' J secretary and treasurer of the Ridge Avenue 

f -. -jiway Company, and a member of the Penn- 

s ciety of Sons of the Revolution. 



. >rn 8 October, 1855 ; died 4 July, 1895 ; 

, f Penr.-ylvania in 1876, and was ad- 

Hc was a member of the 

..■\ r.lnfinn. 
492. was graduated at 

'■'" Philadelphia 
for Boys, at 

;:.,•■■ -,.^01 of I^atin 

'"■ :(8\jp; .oVt) 3205iM,i1 iTjaaiS Tv^rfaj^ a'iaA'a'ovi6fl' '^a^''""", 



Bkldk'. \v t Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 27 October, 1832. 

He re \ Carlisle imtil 1841, when his father was ap- 

pointeu - J, ,Lor of the Treas^r "' removed his family to 
Washington, D. C, where the. . until 1845, when they 

returned to Pennsylvania. He ^^as graduated at the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1850; ■' with his father, and, 19 

November, i-'^': was adin^ le bar in Philadelphia, and 

there succt ■ gaged i ^tice of his profession, until 

he became one oi the ji -ans' Court of Philadel- 

- ' '- ; ' .-i appointed, 30 January, 

the vacancy caused by the 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



death of Judge O'Brien. During the following year he was 
nominated to the same position by both poHtical parties, and 
was unanimously elected for a term of ten years, and was re- 
elected for like terms, in 1889 and 1899, and is now serving in 
such capacity. In 1864 he edited "Taylor's Medical Juris- 
prudence. " He has been a vice-provost of the Law Academy of 
Philadelphia since 1869 ; is a member of the Law Association of 
Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Archae- 
ological Association of the University of Pennsylvania, and the 
American Academy of Social and Political Sciences. 

He married, 30 September, 1857, Mary, daughter of Stephen 
Beasley Linnard * by his wife Emily L. Kelly; born at Phil- 
adelphia, II April, 1835. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia: 

495. Emily Linnard Penrose,' born 17 October, 1858. 

496. Valeria Fullerton Penrose,'' born 29 October, i860. 

497. Charles Bingham Penrose,' born 5 July, 1862; died 6 January, 

1887. 

498. Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose,' born 20 December, 1864; 

married Mary Deming Shipman. 

499. Helen Penrose,' born 29 May, 1867; married, 17 October, 1901, 

Thomas Leiper Hodge; born at Trenton, New Jersey, 9 July, 1865; 
son of Dr. Charles Hodge by his wife Martha Gray Janeway, and 
grandson of the eminent Reverend Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D., 
of Princeton, New Jersey. 

500. Elizabeth Colegate Penrose,' born 22 August, 1869; married, 3 

February, 1891, Reverend Henry Evertson Cobb, D.D.; born at 
Hopewell, New Jersey, 25 March, i$^s- ^^- Cobb is a son of 
Reverend Ohver Ellsworth Cobb,t and was graduated at Rutgers 
College, and at the Princeton Theological Seminary, and is now 
pastor of the Dutch Reformed Collegiate Church at 77th [Street, New 



* He was a son of Captain James M. Linnard, who commanded the First Independent Com- 
pany of Artillerists, Philadelphia, in the War of 1812; was president of Common Councils in 1828, 
and was a son of Captain William Linnard, who was commissioned, 27 August, 1777, captain lieu- 
tenant of the 6th Company Philadelphia Artillery Battalion, under Colonel Jehu Eyre, and was 
in service in the Revolution. 

t The Reverend Oliver Ellsworth Cobb, was a son of Sanford Cobb, and married, 3 November, 
1858, Cornelia Whitney, daughter of Reverend Abraham Polhemus, a descendant, in the seventh 
generation, of the Reverend Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, who settled in Brooklyn in 1654. 

109 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



York. Issue: (501) Dorothy Penrose CoBB,^born3i October, 1892. 
(502) Oliver Ellsworth Cobb,** born 3 February, 1895. (503) 
Emily Linnard Cobb,* born 22 June, 1899. (504) Clement Bid- 
DLE Penrose Cobb,* born 16 September, 1900. 

505. Lydia Baird Penrose,' born 22 September, 1871. 

506. Mary Clementina Penrose,' born 16 April, 1875. 

380. Colonel Charles Bingham Penrose,® son of Charles 
Bingham Penrose ^ by his wife Valeria Fullerton Biddle, was 
born at CarHsle, Pennsylvania, 29 August, 1838; died there, iS 
September, 1895; married, 29 December, 1870, Clara, daughter 
of Dr. James Wheeler Andairese, of New York City. He was 
graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1858. On 3 
August, 1 86 1, he was commissioned Captain and Commissary 
of Subsistence in the U. S. Volunteers, and continued in the 
army until his death. Under date of 15 May, 1902, H. C. 
Corbin, Adjutant- General of the U. S. Army, issued the follow- 
ing certificate as to Major Penrose's record in the army, com- 
piled from the records of the War Department : 

"Statement of the Military Service of 

the late Charles B. Penrose, 
Born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. 
Captain, Comsy. Subs. Vols., 3 Aug., 1861: 

Captain " " U. S. Army, 13 May, 1865; 

Major, 4 Oct., i8^ 

Died, 18 Sept., 1895. 

"Brevetted Major, U.S. Volunteers, 13 March, 1865, 'for meritorious 
services during the war'; Major, U. S. Army, 13 May, 1865, 'for faithful and 
meritorious services in the Subsistence Department during the War,' and 
Lieutenant-Colonel, 11 November, 1867, 'for faithful and meritorious services 
during the war.' 

Service. 
"Accepted commission August 16, 1861, and immediately reported to 
Major-General McClellan at Washington, D. C, and was ordered to Major- 
General Banks' command at Darnestown, Maryland. 

"On duty as Field and Depot Commissary of General Banks' command 
from September 4, 1861, to May 24, 1862, when, in obedience to orders, he 
remained with stores for which there was no transportation, and, the enemy 
coming up, he destroyed them to prevent their falling into the enemy's hands, 
and was cut off and taken prisoner by Ashby's Cavalry. 

no 



Colonel Charles Bingham Penrose (No, 380). 



rHE PENROSE FAMILY. 



50s 



, . T ,; Y Penrose Cobb,* bonti 31 October, 1892. 

(5:j) Oi 1. Cobb," born 3 February, 1895. (S^S) 

Emiia" Li orn 22 June, 1899. (504) Clkment BiD- 

0i,E PT:NKOSi. Couu," born 16 September, 1900. 
LvDiA Baird Penrose,' born 22 September, 1S71. 



506. Mary Clementina Penrose,' born 16 April, 1875, 

380. Colonel Charles Bingh ose/ son of Charles 

Bingham Penrose ^ by his wife Valeria FuUerton Biddle, was 
bom at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 29 August ^y-^- n'.^A there, i& 
September, 1895 ; married, 29 December, laughter 

of Dr. Jame^ Wheeler Andairese, of New ty. He was 

'^. On 3 

nmissary 

of d in the 

ii? \: r '1 ' ■> ,vJav. -.'.•.OJ. H. C. 

.(o8£ .oVI) saoavraT KAHOKiff 8?tiKAH3 javtoJoO i^^ v- 



j Aug.,. ic^oi; 

Army, 13 May, 1865; 

4 Oct., 1889; 

18 Sept., 1895. 

Major. L. S. Volunteers, 13 March, 1865, 'for meritorious 

serv .. .....^ the war'; Major, I". 9. ,Vrmy, 13 May, 1865, 'for faithful and 

meritorious services in the S Department during the War,' and 

Lieutenant-Colonel, 11 Novenr.u.., .< -/, 'for faithful and meritorious services 
during the war.' 

Sebvice. 
"Accepted comm'fi^on August 16. 1861, and immediately reported to 
Major-General Mc^ C., and was ordered to Major- 

General Banks' co arj'land. 

"On duty as F. v of General Banks' command 

from September 4, ' nen, in obedience to orders, he 

remained with sto; ^ no transportation, and, the v; 

coming up, he '• '"r faUing into the enemy's l.u..v... 

and was cut 's Cavalry. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



"Remained a prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina, and Libby Prison, 
Richmond, Virginia, to August 17, 1862; on parole until exchanged September 
21, 1862; reported to Major-General McClellan at Antietam, and was by him 
assigned to the Depot at Hagerstown, Maryland; remained as Depot Com- 
missary from that date until June, 1863. On duty as Acting Chief Commissary 
of Subsistence, Department of the Susquehanna, June 19 to July 2, 1863; 
with troops in the field in Pennsylvania to August, 1863; Depot Commissary 
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during August, 1863, and sick with typhoid fever 
at that station until October, 1863, when ordered to the office of the Com- 
missary General of Subsistence. 

"On duty in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence at Wash- 
ington, D. C, November i, 1863, to December 31, 1867, being also on inspection 
duty at Fort Delaware, Delaware, and Annapolis, Maryland, in 1864; — accom- 
panying President Lincoln to City Point, Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, 
in March and April, 1865, and Commissary and Quartermaster to the escort 
of the remains of the late President Lincoln, on the journey to Springfield, 
Illinois, April 19, 1865; on sick leave February i to May, 1867, and on leave 
June 15 to September 15, 1867. 

"Chief Commissary, ist Militar}' District, and Depot and Post Commissary 
at Richmond, Virginia, January 2 to April i, 1868; Depot Commissary at 
Cheyenne, Wyoming, May, 1868, to June, 1869; at Sioux City, Iowa, to October, 
1869; Purchasing and Depot Commissary of Subsistence at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas (on leave February 10 to April 8, 1870, and December 12, 1870, to 
January 12, 1871), to January 24, 1871; Purchasing and Depot Commissary 
of Subsistence at St. Louis, Missouri, to June, 1875, and also Purchasing and 
Depot Commissary at Chicago, Illinois, during the period from May i, 1875, 
to June I, 1875, and then Purchasing and Depot Commissary at Chicago only, 
until July 16, 1875; on duty in the office of the Commissary General of Sub- 
sistence at Washington, D. C, to November 25, 1875; Purchasing and Depot 
Commissary of Subsistence at Baltimore, Maryland, to April 15, 1876; on 
duty with the Centennial Exhibition at Pliiladelphia, Pennsylvania, from 
April 20, 1876, to May 20, 1876; on sick leave to October 10, 1876; Chief 
Commissary, Department of Texas, and Purchasing and Depot Commissary 
of Subsistence at San Antonio, Texas, to December 26, 1880; Chief Com- 
missary Department of the South, and Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, to April i, 1881; on leave to May 4, 1881. 

" On duty in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence at Wash- 
ington, D. C, May 5, 1881, to April i, 1882; Purchasing and Depot Com- 
missary of Subsistence at Washington, D. C, to September 30, 1882 ; Chief 
Commissary, Department of Dakota, and Purchasing and Depot Commissary 
of Subsistence at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, October 31, 1882 (at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, November i, 1886, to November 6, 1887), to November 6, 1887; 
Chief Commissary, Department of the Missouri, and Purchasing and Depot 
Commissary of Subsistence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, November 7, 1887, 

III 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



to August 21, 1889; Purchasing and Depot Commissary of Subsistence at 
Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 1889, to September 18, 1895, being on leave 
from August 2, 1895, to September 18, 1895, on which latter date he died al 
Carlisle, Pennsylvania." 

Major Penrose's record as above given speaks for itself. It is 
further worthy of mention, however, that at the close of the Civil 
War only two officers from the Subsistence Department were 
appointed to the regular army, one of these being Major Penrose. 

Issue : 

507. Charles Bingham Penrose,' born 25 March, 1872. 

508. Clement Andairese Penrose,' born 2 January, 1874; graduated 

in medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and is practicing in his 
profession at Baltimore, Maryland. 

381. Clement Biddle Penrose,® son of Clement Biddle 
Penrose^ by his wife Ann Wilkinson, was born at Pointe 
Celeste, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 5 April, 1831; died at 
New Orleans, Louisiana, 17 March, 1859; married, 8 Novem- 
ber, 1855, Camille Adele Marie, daughter of George Young 
Bright by his wife Lodoiska de Maupassant; born at New 
Orleans, Louisiana, 26 September, 1836. 

Issue, born at New Orleans: 

509. Clement Biddle Penrose,' born 6 October, 1856; died 17 June 

1895; married, 17 January, 1880, Amelia, daughter of Richard 
Charles, Esq.; born at New Orleans, Louisiana, 16 October, i860. 
He was educated at the High School at New Orleans, and was 
graduated at Belleville College, Virginia. He then engaged in 
business, and soon became the head of the firm of Penrose Brothers, 
operating the Union and Fire Proof Cotton Presses of that city. 
He came to his death by a boiler explosion occurring in his cotton 
press. At the time of his death, he was a member of the School 
Board of New Orleans. Issue : (510) Clement Biddle Penrose,' 
born 21 May, 1881. (511) C.^mille Adele Penrose,* born 5 
March, 1885. 
512. George Bright Penrose,' born 10 October, 1857; died at New 
Orleans, Louisiana, 6 June, 1903; married Laura Mary Elizabeth 
Maginnis. 

112 



Clement Biddle Penrose (No. 381). 



I HE PENROSE FAMILY. 

rrhaeinw and Depot Commissary of Subsistence ai 
8q, to September 18, 1895, being on leave 
iS, 1895, on which latter date he died at 



Pcprose's record as above given speaks for itself. It is 
a, however, that at the close of the Civil 

om the Sub ' ^' 

• rmv. oneof -' 

• March, 1872. 



.{i^l .0/,) iizosivinl iijaaiH TMr^iMajJ 



n 6 October, 1856; died 17 June 

7 i8o, Amelia, daughter of Richard 

Cha'l -'"s, Louisiana, 16 October, i860. 

He )ol at New Orleans, and was 

irginia. He then engaged in 

f the lirm of Penrose Brothers, 

city. 

^tton 

press. A was a member oi the School 

Board of ) Clement Biddle Penrose,* 

»x)rn 2t May, 18.^ .E Adele Penrose,* bom 5 

born xo October, 1857; died at New 
nnsiciiv . I jitne, 1903; married Laura Mary Elizabeth 



Clement Biddle Penrose (No. 509). 



.{Qoi .oVL) aao5iK3l a-iaaia tm3M3.iO 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



382. Captain Joseph Biddle Wilkinson Penrose,® son 
of Clement Biddle Penrose^ by his wife Ann Wilkinson, was 
born at Velasco, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 7 March, 1835. 
He served four years in the Confederate service during the Civil 
War, and at the time of his death, commanded a company in a 
Louisiana regiment, of which his maternal uncle, Robert Wil- 
kinson, was colonel. He participated in the principal battles 
in Virginia and Maryland, and was mortally wounded in a 
skirmish at High Bridge, Appomattox County, Virginia, 6 April, 
1865, three days prior to General Lee's surrender, and probably 
died the same day. He fell during a charge, which he, as senior 
officer, was leading, and as he fell, he called to his men to "go 
on." This was the last known of him. His son was born 
eight months after his death, and died about at five months old. 
His girl wife refused for many months to believe that he was 
really dead. Her anxiety and suspense, with her grief at the 
death of her babe, undermined her health, and she died a 
childless widow at twenty-three years of age, and was buried 
at Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Captain Penrose married at Norfolk, Virginia, February, 
1862, Jane Vaughan, daughter of John Henry Butler by his 
wife Rebecca Frances Camp; born at Norfolk, Virginia, De- 
cember, 1846; died at Charlottesville, Virginia, May, 1867. 

Issue : 

513. Joseph Biddle Wilkinson Penrose,' born at Norfolk, Virginia, 
November, 1865; died at Charlottesville, Virginia, May, 1866. 

383. Ann Howard Penrose,® daughter of Clement Biddle 
Penrose ^ by his wife Ann Wilkinson, was born at Jefferson City 
(now a part of New Orleans), Louisiana, 4 March, 1837 ; died 
circa 1900; married, 23 June, 1856, Henry Wilkinson, son of 
James Wilkinson, U. S. N., of Norfolk, Virginia. Their four 
eldest children were born on Ashland Plantation, near New 
Orleans, and the other four, on Oak Lawn Plantation. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



Issue : 

514. James Coleman Wilkinson,' born 7 June, 1857. 

515. Jesse Wilkinson,' born 25 December, 1859 ; died same day. 

516. Fannie Wilkinson,' born i February, 1861. 

517. Henry Wilkinson,' born 22 May, 1863 ; deceased. 

518. Edward Wilkinson,' born 4 August, 1866; died 3 October, 1887. 

519. Penrose Wilkinson,' born 25 June, 1869 ; deceased. 

520. Walter Wilkinson,' born 14 September, 1871. 

521. Jesse Wilkinson,' born 11 May, 1878. 

385. General William Henry Penrose,® son of Major 
James Wilkinson Penrose ^ by his wife Mary Ann Hoffman, was 
born at Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, New York, 10 
March, 1832. Inheriting mihtary blood from both his father 
and mother, and born under the shadow of the flag in the garri- 
son at Madison Barracks, he imbibed the military spirit in his 
childhood, but his father prepared him for service in the civil 
walks of life. He was educated at Dickinson College as a civil 
and mechanical engineer, and upon leaving college he joined the 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, as a surveyor on the 
Burlington division, and he was still engaged in civil engineering 
at the outbreak of the Civil War. This brought him the op- 
portunity he had long coveted, — engaging in the mihtary ser- 
vice, — and on 13 April, 1861, he received a commission as 
second lieutenant. Third U. S. Infantry, but was assigned to 
duty in the Third Artillery, then stationed at Fort Randall, 
Dakota Territory. Here he remained among the Sioux Indians, 
until ordered to join his regiment, then in the field in Virginia. 

After the battle of Ball's Bluff he was offered the colonelcy of 
the First California, three-battahon regiment, afterward the 
Ninety-first Pennsylvania. This important command was 
offered by total strangers to him. He accepted, and was 
ordered to take command, but his immediate commander, 
General Sykes, intercepted the order reheving him from his 
place in the Regulars, and he never received it. 

During the Pennsylvania campaign, he was offered the com- 

114 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



mand of two other regiments, but, owing to General Sykes' 
aversion to parting with any of the regular army officers, he 
failed to receive the appointment to either command. He 
participated in the Pennsylvania campaign, and was recom- 
mended for three brevets for conspicuous gallantry. 

After the second Bull Run battle he was stricken with swamp 
fever, and upon recovery was ordered to duty as instructor of new 
regiments, at which time regiments were coming in under the 
call of the President. He had special charge of one brigade of 
the Provisional Division, holding part of the defences of Wash- 
ington, also doing secret service duty in that city. On being 
relieved from duty there in November, 1862, a petition was 
signed by every officer in the five regiments of the brigade re- 
questing the Secretary of War to appoint Lieutenant Penrose to 
command the brigade, with the rank of brigadier-general, but 
this effort failed, as at that time no vacancies existed in that grade. 

He rejoined his regiment in December, and commanded a 
company in the first Fredericksburg fight, and on the withdrawal 
of his division he was detailed to command the companies 
covering the movement and taking up the pontoon bridges. 
Immediately afterward he was made adjutant, quartermaster, 
and commissary of his regiment. 

In January, 1863, General Torbert, commanding the First 
New Jersey Brigade, requested Lieutenant Penrose to call upon 
him. He did so, finding the latter ill. General Torbert in- 
formed Penrose that he would be obhged to take sick leave, and 
that, before going home, he desired to see the Fifteenth New 
Jersey, a new regiment, with a competent man at its head, and 
asked Penrose to accept the position, which he did, and, on 18 
April, 1863, assumed command of the regiment, afterward so 
well known as the Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteers. 

On 27 April was inaugurated the battle of Chancellors ville. 
The Sixth Corps, of which the Fifteenth New Jersey was a part, 
was ordered to cross the river below Fredericksburg. The 

"5 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



regiment designated to cross in the pontoon boats not being 
ready, and an aid finding Colonel Penrose and his regiment 
standing at arms, directed him to move forward, and hence this 
regiment was the first to cross, which was gallantly done in the 
face of a heavy fire, and the way cleared for laying the pontoon 
bridges for the rest of the command. Colonel Penrose, in his 
official report of this movement, and of the events of the next few 
days, wrote: 

"My command broke camp at White Oak Church, Virginia, the afternoon of 
Tuesday, April 28th, and marched to the bank of the Rappahanock, near 
FrankHn's Crossing, where it bivouacked until near morning, when it was 
moved to the river and crossed in boats, just before daylight in the morning of the 
29th, taking up a position on the left bank. Remained there until the morning 
of the 3d of May, a portion of which time was employed in doing outpost duty 
immediately in the face of the enemy; remaining upon this duty, taking up 
various positions, and part of the time exposed to severe scattering flank fire from 
the enemy's lines of skirmishers, until the enemy was driven from his position on 
the heights above Fredericksburg, and the line of battle was ordered to retire 
from that place, when I was left in the rear as a support to our retiring skir- 
mishers, by order of the General commanding the Division. Ever}'thing was 
brought from the field without difficulty. After procuring ambulances, to get 
which I had to send to the city of Fredericksburg, and moving the wounded left 
on the battle-field during the rapid movements, I proceeded upon the line of 
march of the corps. Arriving some distance out of the city on the plank road, I 
learned that the enemy was making stout resistance in front, and that the First 
Brigade (N. J.) was about to engage him. Marching as rapidly as possible, I 
arrived at the front at about 5 o'clock p. m., and without halting, was immediately 
ordered by General commanding the Corps to engage the enemy on the right of 
the road, in which the enemy had taken a position and effectively resisted every 
attempt to dislodge him. My command advanced about a quarter of a mile 
through a dense woods and in places of almost impassable undergrowth, to 
about thirty yards of the enemy's position, where I engaged at least four of liis 
regiments, with, I am convinced, terrible effect, but without driving him from his 
well-chosen position. Just after dark, my command being entirely e.xhausted, 
and the enemy's fire destructive, after having another regiment sent to relieve me, 
I retired in good order, the enemy showing no disposition to follow. . . . 
. Sunday night mj- command bivouacked upon the battle-field. Dur- 
ing the engagement on Monday was assigned to various positions, part of which 
was supporting batteries. When at night the artillery was ordered toward the 
river, I was ordered to follow it. Recrossed the river just before daylight, and 
went into camp on the right bank. " 

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regiment designated to cross in the pontoon boats not being 
ready, and an aid finding Colonel Penrose and his regiment 
standing at arms, directed him to move forward, and hence this 
regiment a- ''' "rst to cross, which was gallantly done in the 
face of a hc^ , _ _, and the way cleared for laying the pontoon 
bridges for the rest of the command. Colonel Penrose, in his 
official report of this movement, and of the events of the next few 
days, wrote: 



"My command 
Tuesday, April 2 
Franklin's C 



/ at 'White Oak Church, Virginia, the aiternoon ot 
nrrbi'd to the bank of the Rappahanock, near 

.'hen it was 

c>rning of the 

the morning 

uiir.)>.i duty 



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march > 

learned Hiai nr- mv-:'; ■.-.a-. 

Brigade (N. J.) was about t 

arrived at the front at ab 

ordered by General coii 

the road, in which the eneui^ 

attempt to dislodge liim. Ai 

through a dense woods and m 

about tliirty yards of thf < n -inv 

regiments, with, I am cc 

well<hoscn p- •►•-■- 

and the enen: 

I retired in r 

.... Si 

ing the ■ 

was su[ 

river, I was ' 

went, ''nln cm 



led left 

_ ^ .„_ line of 

the city on the plank road, I 

. 1 uuice in front, and that the First 

■ n. Marching as rapidly as possible, I 

!'. M., and without halting, was immediately 

e Corps to engage the enemy on the right of 

a position and eflfectively resisted every 

• 1 advanced about a quarter of a mile 

places of almost impassable undergrowth, to 

^ i o-Ition, where I engaged at least four of his 

eflfect, but without driving him from his 

• '-fimraand being entirely exh9,usted, 

nother regiment sent to relieve me, 

no disposition to foUow. . . . 

ked upon the battle-field. Dur- 

■■ o various positions, part of which 

• artillery was ordered toward the 

ecrossed the river just before daylight, and 

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SIXTH GENERATION. 



Twice during the movement thus mentioned, Colonel Pen- 
rose was in command of his brigade, and after the river was 
recrossed he again fell in command, which he retained until a 
few days before the battle of Gettysburg, when General Torbert 
rejoined the army in the field. 

During the battle at Spottsylvania, May 8th, just after General 
Sedgwick had been killed, an order was received from General 
Grant for Colonel Penrose to assume command of the brigade, 
without regard to rank, thus placing him over all of his seniors. 
But one other instance of such high honor was conferred during 
the war. After participating in the bloody fights about this 
point, he again was assigned the honor of covering the with- 
drawal of the army, and again so assigned, at Cold Harbor. 

While in front of Petersburg his Corps was ordered to Wash- 
ington, to meet Early's move against that city, and from there 
into the Shenandoah Valley, under General Sheridan, whe^e 
Colonel Penrose participated in every battle save one. At 
Cedar Creek he was severely wounded, necessitating the removal 
of several inches of the bones of his right arm, but in spite of 
this serious injury he was absent from his command but three 
months, and returned to participate in the engagements about 
Petersburg, where he was again wounded but did not leave the 
field, and was in the subsequent battles up to the date of Lee's 
surrender. 

After the close of the war he was made judge advocate-general 
on the staff of Major General Hancock, and stationed at Fort 
Leavenworth. In the early Spring of 1867 he was ordered to 
cross the plains into Colorado, and there establish a mihtary 
post at Fort Lyon, which he did, taking his family with him, 
although the journey was through hostile Indian country. From 
this time to the date of his retirement he constantly served with 
the colors, and almost continually on frontier duty, being en- 
gaged in many Indian expeditions. While in command at Fort 
Lyon the venerable Kit Carson, of Western fame, came to his 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



house and died there, and during his campaign in the winter of 
1867-68, against the Southern Indians, W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) 
served as his chief of scouts. 

The following is Colonel Penrose's record as given in the 
Army Register : 

"Account of Service. 
"Appointed 2d Lieutenant, 3d U. S. Infantry, from Michigan, April 13th, 
i86r, joined at Fort Randall, Dakota, on duty with 4th Artillerj' until July, 1861, 
then joined Regiment at Arlington, Va., First Lieutenant 3d Infty, May 14th, 
1861. Engaged in the battles of Gaines' Mill, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, 
and second Bull Run, Va., Military instructor of new regiments at Washington, 
D. C, engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Captain 3d Infty, nth of 
September, 1863. Major 12th Infty, 31st May, 1883. Lieutenant-Colonel i6th 
Infty, 2ist .August, 1888. Colonel 20th Infty, 28th November, 1893. Trans- 
ferred to i6th Infty, 15th September, 1894. Retired by statute limitation loth 
March, 1896. 

"Service in Volunteers. 
"Colonel 15th New Jersey Volunteers, April i8th, 1863. Bvt. Brig. General 
U. S. Volunteers, October 19th, 1864. Brig. General U. S. Volunteers and Bvt. 
Maj. General April, 1866. Honorabl)' mustered out of volunteers. Engaged in 
the battles of second Fredericksburg, Marie Heights, Salem Church. In com- 
mand of Brigade, Gettysburg, Farmington, Rappahannock Station, and opera- 
tions of Mine Run, Va. Commanded Brigade in the battles of the Wilderness, 
Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, defences of Washington against the Rebel 
General Early's raid, battles of Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek (wounded), 
and the operations terminating in the capture of Petersburg (wounded) and the 
surrender of Gen'l Lee. 

"Brevets. 

"Captain, May 3d, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Marie 
Heights, Va. 

"Major, July 2d, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Gettys- 
burg, Pa. 

"Lieutenant-Colonel, May 8th, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the 
battles of the Wilderness, Va. 

"Colonel, October 19th, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of 
Cedar Creek, Va. 

"Brigadier-General, April 9th, for gallant and meritorious services during the 
war. 

"Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services in the 
battle of Middletown, Va. Assigned to command without regard to rank at 
battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Va." 

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SIXTH GENERATION. 



General Penrose died at Salt Lake City, Utah, 29 August, 
1903. He married at Niles, Michigan, 10 March, 1832, 
Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Hiram Adams by 
his wife Harriet EHzabeth Brown; * born 24 March, 1836. 

Issue : 

522. Fanny Maud Penrose," born i July, 1855; died 28 August, 1856. 

523. Charles Wilkinson Penrose,'' born 10 March, 1858; married (i) 

Mary M. Minor; (2) Lucy Wadham Townsend. 

524. George Hoffman Penrose,' born 4 June, 1861; married Katharine 

Oden Hughart. 

387. Catharine Howard Penrose,^ daughter of James 
Wilkinson Penrose ^ by his wife Mary Ann Hoffman, was born in 
Hancock Barracks, Maine, 3 June, 1837; married at Niles, 
Michigan, 5 November, 1856, George B. Adams. 

Issue : 

525. Hallack Penrose Adams,' born 22 August, 1857; had his name 

changed by an act of the legislature to Hallack Abby Penrose; 
married (i) Dorothy Miller, who died shortly after their marriage; 
(2), 18 January, 1894, Laura La Tour Whitworth, and had issue: 
(526) Catharine Margaret Penrose,* born at New London, Con- 
necticut, 29 October, 1894. 
527. William Henry Adams,' born 3 August, 1859; married (i), 5 July, 
1871, Annie Laura Carr. She died 17 April, 1874, and he married 
(2) Elinor Harrington. 

* Harriet Elizabeth Brown was born at Brownsville, New York, 30 September, 1808, and 
died at Fort Niagara, New York, 6 September, 1884. She was a daughter of Major Samuel Brown 
by his wife Nancy Skinner. Major Brown was born at Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 
3 November, 1782, and died at Saratoga Springs, New York, 24 June, 1842. He entered the 
U. S. Army as major and paymaster, in March, 1813, which position he resigned 18 June, 1816. 
His wife Nancy Skinner was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, 5 February, 1784; died 18 
October, 1814. Major Brown was a son of Samuel Brown, who was born in Bucks County, i 
November, 1751, and removed in later years to a point on the Black River, New York, where he 
had purchased land of Rudolph Tillier, the agent of a large land company on the St. Lavirrence 
River. Here he built his home, and gave the name to the town of Brownsville. He married, 10 
March, 1773, Abi White, by whom he had twelve children. Major Samuel Brown being one, and 
the eminent Major-General Jacob Brown, who distinguished himself in the War of 1812, and 
rose to the command of the army of the U. S., was another. The father of the elder Samuel Brown 
was John Brown, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he was born 29 August, 1725; died 18 
January, 1802; married, Ann Field, and was a son of Samuel Brown, born in Bucks County, 
6 November, 1694; died 3 October, 1769; married, 6 September, 1717, Ann Clark, and was a 
son of George Brown, born in Leicestershire, England, in 1643; died in Buck County, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1726, having emigrated to that province among the first colonists. 

119 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



528. Amelia Alexander Adams,' born i November, 1861; married, 26 

November, 1884, John L. Sneed. 

529. Harriet Elizabeth Adams,' born 9 February, 1863; died 19 April, 

1890; married, 24 May, 1885, John E. King. 

389. James Wilkinson Penrose,'' son of Major James 
Wilkinson Penrose by his wife Mary Ann Hoffman, was born 19 
February, 1842 ; married, 29 June, 1876, Annie Townsend, of 
Philadelphia. 

Issue : 

530. Annie Gale Penrose.' 

390^. Valeria C. Penrose,^ daughter of Major James 
Wilkinson Penrose ^ by his wife Mary Ann Hoffman, was born 
at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 31 December, 1846; married at 
Davenport, Iowa, 10 November, 1868, James B. Chnton, of 
Davenport. 

Issue : 

531. James Wilkinson Clinton,' born 29 August, 1869; married, 13 Octo- 

ber, 1891, Grace E. Warner, and has issue: (532) Lucille Warner 
Clinton.* 

533. Charles Paul Clinton,' born 17 September, 187 1. 

534. Mary Ada Clinton,' born 14 March, 1875. 

535. Ann Hoffman Clinton,' born i December, 1880; died 25 August, 1885. 





Honorable Boies Penrose (No. 485). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



CANDER Adams,' born i November, 1861; married, 26 
.. John L. Sneed. 
5 TH Adams/ born 9 February, 1863; died 19 April, 

1690; married, 24 May, 1885, John E. King. 

389. James Wilkinson Penrose,' son of Major James 
Will'"" ' " '^"nrose by his wife Mary Ann Hoffman, was bom 19 
Fel 42 ; married, 29 June, 1876, Annie Townsend, of 

Philadelphia. 

Issut 

5^^, ,..-... Oaik Penrose.' 

■"'■■'-' Valeria C. Pt.'^---'-^-^ ' ri,ncrhif:r of Major James 
n Penrose * by h ■ Hoffman, was born 

IP, Pennsylvania, 31 1 46; married at 

;v"s B. Clinton, of 

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SEVENTH GENERATION. 




485. Honorable Boies Penrose/ son of Dr. 
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose** by 
his wife Sarah Hannah Boies, was born 
at Philadelphia, i November, i860. He 
received his early education at the Epis- 
copal Academy and under private tutors. 
He graduated from Harvard University 
with honors in 1881, being one of the five out of a class of 
nearly two hundred and fifty, selected by competitive examina- 
tion to deliver an oration at commencement. The subject of 
his paper was: "Martin Van Buren as a Politician." 

Upon leaving college he engaged in the study of the law, with 
Honorable Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, Esq. ; 
was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1883, and immediately 
entered on the practice of his profession, associating himself with 
S. Davis Page and Edward P. Alhnson, Esqrs., under the firm 
name of Page, Allinson & Penrose. In 1884 he was elected to 
the legislature of Pennsylvania, as the representative from the 
Eighth Philadelphia District, and in November, 1886, he was 
elected to the State Senate for a term of four years, from the 
Sixth Senatorial District, composed of the Seventh, EJighth, and 
Ninth Wards. In May, 1889, he was chosen president pro 
tempore of that body, and in November, 1890, he was re-elected 
to the Senate, and when it assembled in January, 1891, he was 
re-elected President pro tempore. In 1894 he was again re-elected 
to the Senate, and in January, 1897, was elected United States 
Senator for the term of six years, and in January, 1903, was re- 
elected for the term expiring in March, 1909. 

486. Charles Bingham Penrose,^ M.D., Ph.D., son of Dr. 
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose " by his wife Sarah 
Hannah Boies, was born at Philadelphia, i February, 1862. 
He was prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy and by 
private tutors, and entered Harvard University when in his 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



sixteenth year. He was graduated in 1881, receiving the degree 
of A.B., with highest honors in physics. 

On leaving college, he entered upon the study of medicine at 
the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time continued 
his studies in mathematics and physics at Harvard, where, by 
special permission of the University Council, he was allowed to 
try for the degree of Ph.D., on condition that he should spend 
two months of each yearly term at Harvard. He received the 
degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and the 
degree of Ph.D. in physics from Harvard, both in the spring 
of 1884. 

In 1885 and 1886 he was resident physician at the Penn- 
sylvania Hospital, and in 1887 was appointed out-patient sur- 
geon to the same. In 1888 he became one of the founders and 
surgeons of Gynaecean Hospital. In 1890 he was appointed sur- 
geon to the German Hospital, and in 1893 was chosen professor 
of Gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania — succeeding 
Professor William Goodell. In 1899 he voluntarily resigned 
his professorship, and at the same time retired from the active 
practice of medicine. He is the author of a "Text-Book on 
Diseases of Women," now in its fifth edition, and of many con- 
tributions to medical journals. From 1878 until 1884 he 
published a number of articles on mathematical and physical 
subjects. He is a member of the College of Physicians of Phil- 
adelphia, the American Gynecological Society, the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, the National Geographic Society, etc., a direc- 
tor of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, and was Honorary 
Chairman of the Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology and Abdom- 
inal Surgery of the Second Pan-American Medical Congress, 
held in the City of Mexico, November, 1896. 

Dr. Penrose married at New York, 17 November, 1892, 
Katharine Drexel, daughter of the late eminent banker, Joseph 
W. Drexel, Esq., by his wife Lucy, daughter of Thomas Lloyd 



Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose (No. 486). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



sixteenth year. He was graduated in 1881, receivinsr the dca:ree 
of A.B., with highest honors in physics. 

On leaving college, he entered upon the study of medicine at 
the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time continued 
his studies in mathematics and physics at Harvard, where, by 
special permission of the University Council, he was allowed to 
try for the degree of Ph.D., on condition that he should spend 
two months of each yearly term at Harvard. He received the 
degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and the 
degree of Ph.D. in physics from Harvard, both in the spring 

^ Dhysirin.n at the Penn- 

ient sur- 
.(d8ji .oM) 3?.oavi3<T mahohiS aajaAHO .hG irid 



the au. xt-Book on 

iiovv in its fifth ediiioii, and of many con- 
_,.:jun^ii> "■> ,,.<,., il journals. From 1878 until 1884 he 
published a number of articles on mathematical and physical 
subjects. He is a member of the College of Physicians of Phil- 
adelphia, the American Gynecological Society, the ' ' ^v of 
Natural Sciences, the American Association for u ice- 

ment of Science, the National Geographic Society, etc., a direc- 
tor of the Zoological Society r Iphia, and was Honorary 
Chairman of the Sect- - - .-, Gynecology and Abdom- 
inal Surgery of the . American Medical Congress, 
held in the City of > ovember, 1896. 

Dr. Penrose married ui New York, 17 November, iiS92, 
Katharine Drexel, daughter of the late eminent banker, Joseph 
W. Drexel, Esq., by his wife Lucy, daughter of Thomas Lloyd 



t 




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Richard A. F. Penrose, Jr. (No. 487)- 



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Spencer Penrose (No. 488). 



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Philip Thomas Penrose (No. 490). 



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SEVENTH GENERATION. 



Wharton, Esq., by his wife Sarah Ann Smith. Mrs. Penrose . 

was bom in Philadelphia, 15 February, 186^, and graduated (ol 
from Vassar College with the degree of A.B. in 1889. She is a 
descendant of numerous eminent Americans of the Colonial 
period, among whom may be mentioned : Thomas Lloyd, who 
became governor of Pennsylvania in 1684; Thomas Wharton, 
Jr., the first governor of that State after the Declaration of In- 
dependence; Thomas Howell, member of the West Jersey 
Assembly in 1683 and 1685 ; Colonel Thomas Willett, com- 
mander of the Queen's County Mihtia, New York, for many 
years, and a member of the Governor's Council of that Colony, 
from 1690 until 1698; Colonel William Willett, member of the 
legislature of New York from 1701 until 1733, and John Rod- 
man, who was for many years a member of the King's Council 
for New Jersey. 

Issue, born at Philadelphia : 

536. Sarah Hannah Boies Penrose/ born 23 June, 1896. 

537. Charles Bingham Penrose,^ born 7 May, 1900; died 24 December, 

1901. 

538. Boies Penrose,' born 20 November, 1902. 

487. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose,^ Jr., 
fourth son of Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose by his 
wife Sarah Hannah Boies, was born at 1331 Spruce Street, Phil- 
adelphia, 17 December, 1863, entered Harvard University in 
1880, at the age of seventeen years, and graduated with the 
highest honors in 1884. He remained for post-graduate studies 
two years longer, and, in 1886, received the degrees of A.M. and 
Ph.D. His thesis for the degree of Ph.D. was entitled "The 
Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime, " and this 
thesis was promptly published by the United States Geological 
Survey. 

In 1888 he was appointed Geologist in charge of the Survey 
of Eastern Texas, on the Geological Survey of that State. In 

123 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1889 he was appointed by the Geological Survey of Arkansas to 
make detailed reports on the manganese and iron ore regions 
of that State. In 1892 he was elected Professor of Economic 
Geology at the University of Chicago, and, in 1893, gave a 
course of lectures on Economic Geology at the Stanford Uni- 
versity of Cahfornia. In 1894, while still holding these pro- 
fessorships, he was appointed by the United States Geological 
Survey, Special Geologist to examine and report on the gold 
district of Cripple Creek, Colorado. 

The hterary work of Mr. Penrose has been varied and ex- 
tensive, and up until now, strictly scientific and professional. 
The following are his principal works : 

"The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime," 
Bulletin United States Geological Survey, No. 46, 1888, 143 
pages. 

" Geology of the Gulf Tertiary of Texas, from the Red River 
to the Rio Grande," Geological Survey of Texas, First Annual 
Report, 1889, 1 01 pages. 

"Manganese, its Uses, Ores, Deposits," Geological Survey 
of Arkansas, 1890, Vol. i, 642 pages. 

"The Iron Deposits of Arkansas," Geological Survey of 
Arkansas, 1892, Vol. i, 153 pages. 

"The Mining Geology of the Cripple Creek District, Colo- 
rado," 1895, 98 pages, being Part II of "The Geology and 
Mining Industries of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado," 
by Whitmore Cross and R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., United States 
Geological Survey, Sixteenth Annual Report, 1894-95. 

In addition to the above works, Mr. Penrose has furnished 
shorter articles in the "American Journal of Science"; "Bul- 
letin of the Geological Society of America"; "Journal of Geol- 
ogy"; "Proceedings of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science" ; " Geological Survey of Texas Reports" ; 
"Mining and Engineering Journal" ; "The Mineral Industry"; 
"Geological and Scientific Magazine," etc. 

124 



Rev. Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose (No. 498). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



1889 he was appointed by the Geological Survey of Arkansas to 

make detailed reports on the manganese and iron ore regions 

" 'f. was elected Professor of Economic 

y of Chicago, and, in 1893, g^^^ ^ 

course of lectures on Economic Geology at the Stanford Uni- 

' 'ty of California. In 1894, while still holding these pro- 

-.c.-ourships, he was appointed by the United States Geological 

Survey, Special Geologist to examine and report on the gold 

let of Cripple Creek, Colorado. 

' 'f Mr. Penrose has been varied and ex- 
'f,\\. vinctly scientific and professional. 
I works: 

■ :; of Lime, " 
40, 1888, 143 

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River 
.\nnual 

Survey 

cicgi'jai Survey ot 
Ark. 

agy of the Cripple Creek District, Colo- 

s, being Part II of "The Geology and 

A. .,,... , vv the Cripple Creek District, Colorado," 

iiore Cross and R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., United States 

Geological Survey, Sixteenth Annual Report, 1894-95. 

In addition to ■ ' ' ' Mr. Penrose has furnished 
shorter articles in _ journal of Science"; "Bul- 
letin of the Geolosricai Society of America"; "Journal of Geol- 
ogy"; "Proc iierican Association for the Ad- 

. . ^. . „ I Survey of Texas Reports" ; 

; "The Mineral Industry " ; 
cal and Scien e,'' etc. 



"'^^^ 




SEVENTH GENERATION. 



At the present date (1903) Mr. Penrose is engaged in many 
and varied enterprises. He is President of the Commonwealth 
Mining and Milhng Company ; one of the Executive Committee 
of the Hanover Bessemer Iron Ore Association ; a director of the 
Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company at Colorado City, 
Colorado ; a member of the Board of Managers of the Philadel- 
phia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company ; a direc- 
tor of the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway in Arizona. 
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science ; a member of the Geological Society of America ; a 
member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers ; a mem- 
ber of the National Geographic Society, Colorado Scientific 
Society, Geological Society of Washington, and the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

488. Spencer Penrose,' fifth son of Dr. Richard Alexander 
FuUerton Penrose ^ by his wife Sarah Hannah Boies, was born 
at 1 33 1 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 2 November, 1865. En- 
tered Harvard University in 1882, at the age of seventeen, gradu- 
ating with credit in 1886. He entered at once into the active 
and earnest work of the Western States and Territories and, 
finally, became interested, in the beginning of their development, 
in the mines of Cripple Creek, Colorado. At the present (1903) 
he is engaged in a great variety of business enterprises— real es- 
tate, railroad, gold, copper and other mines, reduction of ores, etc. 

498. Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose,' son of the Hon- 
orable Clement Biddle Penrose*^ by his wife Mary Beasley Lin- 
nard, was born at Philadelphia, 20 December, 1864. He was 
graduated at Williams College in 1885; was an instructor there 
in 1886-87, and in 1890, went to Dayton, Washington, as a 
Home Missionary, becoming pastor of the Congregational 
Church there, and an incorporator of the American Board of 
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and is now the president 
of Whitman College, at Walla Walla, Washington, and filling 

125 : 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



the chair of Gushing Eells Professor of Mental and Moral 
Science. 

Mr. Penrose married, 17 June, 1896, Mary Deming Ship- 
man; born at Hartford, Connecticut, 27 July, 1868; daughter of 
the Honorable Nathaniel Shipman, judge of the Circuit Court 
of the United States, by his wife Mary Caroline Robinson. 

Issue, born at Walla Walla, Washington: 

539. Mary Deming Penrose,^ born 26 March, 1898. 

540. Frances Shipman Penrose, ** born 16 February, 1900. 

541. Nathaniel Shipman Penrose,* born 14 November, 1902. 

542. Clement Biddle Penrose,^ born 14 November, 1902. 

512. George Bright Penrose,' son of Clement Biddle 
Penrose * by his wife Gamille Adele Marie Bright, was born at 
New Orleans, Louisiana, 10 October, 1857; died there, 6 June, 
1903. He was educated in the public schools of New Orleans 
and at Bellville College, Virginia, completing his education at 
Soule's College in New Orleans. He commenced his business 
life with the cotton firm of Anderson & Simpson; was later 
superintendent of the money order department of the New 
Orleans post office, and was afterwards with the United States 
Light House Board. Later, he and his brother, Clement Biddle 
Penrose, went into the cotton press business, under the firm 
name of Penrose Brothers. On 4 November, 1896, he was 
elected by the City Council as Treasurer of New Orleans, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of General Euclid Boylan. 
In 1899, he was nominated City Treasurer by the Regular 
Democratic Party, and was elected at the ensuing election, and 
was serving in such capacity at his death. 

Mr. Penrose was an enthusiastic national guardsman, and 
was a commissioned officer of the Crescent Rifles, and was with 
that command during all the competitive drills which made the 
company famous. He was a partner in the cotton brokerage 
firm of Smith & Penrose, a member of the New York and New 
Orleans cotton exchanges, and a director of the Louisiana 

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George Brk.iit Penrose, Esq. (No. 512). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY, 



the chair of Gushing Eells Professor of Mental and Moral 
Science. 

Mr. Penrose married, 17 June, 1890, Mary Demmg Ship- 
man; born at Hartford, Connecticut, 27 July, 1868; daughter of 
the Honorable Nathaniel Shipman, judge of the Circuit Court 
of the United States, by his wife Mary Caroline Robinson. 

Issue, born at Walla Walla, Washington: 

539. Masy Deming Penrose,* born 26 March, 1898. 

540. Frances Shipman Penrose,^ born 16 Februaxy, 1900. 

541. Nathaniel Shipman Penrose,* born 14 November, 1902. 

542. Clement Biddle Penrose,* born 14 I^ovember, 1902. 

512. George Bright Penrose,^ son of Clement Biddle 
Penrose* by his" wife Cam as born at 

': ... ' T:ine, 

_ . '_ -.ans 
3 !3 education at 

S .(sij .oMj .pajl ,38oa>ia4 rnoiHa aoaoafe)-. .n his business 

i •■ -■■ 'ts later 

.: .:'.• New 

Orleans i United States 

oard. Liater, nc and ius bioUicr, Clement Biddle 
^. ....... ...... into the cotton press business, under the firm 

name of Penrose Brothers. On 4 November, 1896, he was 
elected by the City Council as Treasurer of New Orleans, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of General Euclid Boylan. 
In 1899, he was nominated City Treasurer by the Regular 
Democratic Party, and was elected at the ensuing election, and 
was serving in such capacity at his death. 

Mr. Penrose was an enthusiastic national guardsman, and 

was a commissioned officer of the Crescent Rifles, and was with 

that command during ail the competitive drills which made the 

any famous. He was a partner in the cotton brokerage 

)f Smith & Penrose, a member of the New York and New 

Orleans cotton exchanges, and a director of the Louisiana 

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National Bank, the Inter-State Trust and Banking Company, 
the United States Deposit and Savings Bank, and other im- 
portant business corporations. He was a member of the 
Boston Pickwick and Choctaw clubs, and captain of the Mistic 
Krewe of Comus, the leading carnival organization of New 
Orleans, besides a valued member of other carnival organiza- 
tions. The New Orleans " Times-Democrat," of 7 June, in its 
article on the death of Mr. Penrose, said : 

"It will seem impossible to believe to thousands of persons in New Orleans 
this morning that the genial, whole-souled, popular gentleman, a man among 
men, George B. Penrose, is no more. He was a part of the city. Almost 
everybody knew and loved him. Whoever came in contact with him felt the 
influence of his kindliness and his engaging manners, born of an innate con- 
sideration for the feelings of others. His greeting, even of a comparative 
stranger, had the effect of making a fast friend. He was so well known and 
liked by persons in all sorts and conditions of life that he justly came to have 
the reputation of being the most popular man in New Orleans. ... In fact, 
the active and charming personal life of Mr. Penrose, pervaded the business 
and social life of New Orleans. His vigorous influence was felt in all circles." 

"The Daily Picayune," of New Orleans, in its edition of 7 
June, 1903, thus mentions Mr. Penrose's death: 

"The community will learn with keen regret of the death last evening of 
Hon. George B. Penrose, for the past seven years City Treasurer of New Orleans. 
Of the many prominent men who have held public office in recent years, none 
have been more generally liked than Mr. Penrose. He played a less conspicu- 
ous role in local politics probably than many others, but as a public official, in 
a position of the very first importance, he won general confidence and regard, 
and his death will be genuinely regretted by all classes in the community. 

"Mr. Penrose was chosen City Treasurer on the death of General Euclid 
Boylan early in the Flower Administration. So well did he administer the 
affairs of the Treasurer's office during the three years he served under Mayor 
Flower that he was nominated to succeed himself on the regular Democratic 
ticket and was triumphantly elected. His management of the ofl&ce during 
the present administration has been marked by the same conspicuous ability 
and success which characterized his first years in office in Mayor Flower's time. 

"Mr. Penrose was probably even better known socially and in business 
circles than as a public official. He has always taken a prominent part in 
the city's social life, was connected with the most important clubs and played 
a leading role in the management of some of the most conspicuous features 
of the Carnival. 

127 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



"At the time of his death, Mr. Penrose was a comparatively young man, 
which makes his untimely demise all the greater shock to all who knew him. 
He has hved in this city all his hfe, and was thoroughly identified with the 
aims and ambitions of the community. Whether in private business life or in 
pubhc office, his career has been equally honorable. With him public office 
was a public trust, and for this reason his death is a public misfortune." 

Mr. Penrose married, lo November, 1887, Mary Laura 
Elizabeth, daughter of the late Arthur Ambrose Maginnis by 
his wife Elizabeth Jane Armstrong; born 17 July, 1861. 

Issue: 

543. Laura Adele Marie Penrose,^ born 11 August, 1S88. 

544. George Bright Penrose,^ born 3 July, 1892. 

523. Captain Charles Wilkinson Penrose,^ son of General 
William Henry Penrose ^ by his wife Harriet Elizabeth Adams, 
was born at Niles, Michigan, 10 March, 1858, and was educated 
at Hellmoth College, London, Canada. On 30 October, 1884, 
he was appointed second lieutenant in the Eleventh United 
States Infantry, and was promoted first Heutenant, 13 April, 
1889. In 1 89 1 he graduated at the War College, Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, in which he was an instructor in Mihtary and 
Civil Law, in 1892-3, and from 1894 until 1896, the secretary 
of the college. In 1891 he commanded the Apache Indian 
Company of his regiment, and he served with his command 
at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, commanding the 
advance guard at the taking of Porto Rico. He was promoted 
captain, 26 April, 1898. He married, 19 January, 1886, Mary 
M., daughter of John D. Minor, of Cincinnati, Ohio. She 
died at Buford, Dakota Territory, 10 April, 1887, and he 
married (2), at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, i November, 
1894, Lucy Wadham, daughter of Colonel Edwin F. Town- 
send, U. S. Army. No issue. 

524. Captain George Hoffman Penrose,^ son of General 
WiUiam H. Penrose '^ by his wife Harriet Elizabeth Brown, was 
born at Whitehall, New York, 4 June, 1861. He was educated 

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Captain Charles Wilkinson Penrose (No. 523). 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



"At the time of his death, Mr. Penrose was a comparatively young man, 
which makes his untimely demise all the greater shock to all who knew him. 
Ke h?" livcri i" this city all his life, and was thoroughly identified with the 
t the community Whether in private business life or in 
i - 'er has been equally honorable. With him public oflke 

was a public trust, and for this reason his death is a public misfortune." 

Mr. Penrose married, lo November, 1887, Mar>' Laura 
Elizabeth, daughter of the late Arthur Ambrose Maginnis by 
his wife EHzabeth Jane Armstrong; bom t7 July, 1S61, 

Issue : 

543. Laura Adele Marie Penrose,* bornf ii August, 1888. 

544. George Bright Penv-^' ^ ■■ - - ^ ' ■• -^ 

c ~ ' r ■ , ,. . ,f General 

WW . Adams, 

i(£\j-«.d^)"3a0flrv[.T!^ vfoamajiW aa.tJiAHO «T:At**AD >;ducated 

ill 

:; April, 
■•on- 
and 
• lary 
of the college. imanded the Apache Indian 

Company of his reginieiu, ana he served with his command 
at the outbreak of the Spanish- American War, commanding the 
advance guard at the taking of Porto Rico. He was promoted 
captain, 26 April, 1898. He married, 19 January, 1886, Mary 
M., daughter of John D. 1ST" ' '"^ ' aati, Ohio. She' 

died at Buford, Dakota T ^ d, 1887, and he 

married (2), at Fort orth, Kansas, i November, 

1894, Lucy Wadhar iter of Colonel Edwin F. Town- 

send, U. S. Army. ■ ..• -uc. 

524. Captain Ge*-' • '■f^»FFMAN Penrose,' son of General 
William H. Penrose vife Harriet Elizabeth Brown, was 

born at Whitehall, New York, 4 June, 1861. He was educated 

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SEVENTH GENERATION. 



at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received the degree of M.D. 
from the University of Buffalo, New York, in 1885. After 
spending two years as hospital intern, he was appointed acting 
assistant-surgeon in the U. S. Army, and served at Fort Totten, 
Dakota Territory, and Madison Barracks, New York, and was 
later appointed assistant-surgeon, and served at the Soldiers' 
Home, Washington, D. C. In 1894 he resigned from the army, 
to enter private practice at Salt Lake City, Utah, and in 1896 was 
appointed Surgeon- General of the State. At the outbreak of 
the war with Spain he was commissioned major and brigade 
surgeon. United States Volunteers, and accompanied the first ex- 
pedition from San Francisco to Manila; was engaged in the 
battle culminating in the capture of Manila, 13 August, 1898, 
and was recommended for brevet lieutenant -colonel for con- 
spicuous gallantry on the battle-field. He was in charge there 
of captured Spanish medical property; served as inspector of 
mihtary prisoners, and established and commanded the first 
reserve hospital in Manila. At the breaking out of the Philip- 
pine Insurrection he took the field as chief surgeon of the First 
Brigade, First Division, Eighth Army Corps, and participated 
in all the battles, engagements, and skirmishes of his command. 
He was chief surgeon of the First Division, under Major-General 
Henry Ware Lawton, and was with him throughout the several 
campaigns which he conducted. For his services at the battle 
of San Isidro, 17 May, 1899, General Lawton recommended 
him for brevet lieutenant-colonel, and for his services at the 
Dessert fight, 10 June, 1899, ^^ was recommended for Colonel, 
as will be seen from the following letters : 

"Headquarters First Division, 
"Eighth Army Corps, 

"Manila, P. I., 
"November 6th, 1899. 
"Major George H. Penrose, 

"Brigade Surgeon U. S. Volunteers, 
"Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Division Commander, Major 
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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. Volunteers, in his final report, dated Septem- 
ber 26th, 1899, of an expedition to the Province of Bulucan, Neuva Ecija and 
Pampanga, Luzon, P. I., April, 22d to May 30th (San Isidro or Northern Ex- 
pedition) recommended you for Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers, under 
section 1209 R. S. 

"The following is an extract from the General's report of that expedition : 
" ' In the afternoon of the 17th after the battle of San Isidro, several insurgent 
wounded were reported on the field of the morning's fight outside of our lines. 
Major George H. Penrose, Brigade Surgeon, U. S. Vols., accompanied by ist 
Lieutenant Franklin M. Kemp, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, with ambu- 
lances, were sent out to care for and bring in the wounded. The ofiicers met a 
few natives that they took to be insurgents and unhesitatingly attempted to cap- 
ture them, and revolvers in hand rode down two of them, and found their rifles in 
the bamboos near by. 

" 'Major Penrose and his orderly, while watering their horses at the ford, re- 
turning, were surprised by two or three Mauser volleys from the enemy concealed 
across the river. Six insurgent wounded were brought into the hospital.' 

" Very respectfully, 

(Signed) "Clarence R. Edwards, 
"Lt-Col. 47th Inf. U. S. v., 
" Actg-Asst-Adjt-Genl. " 

"Headquarters First Division, 
" Eighth Army Corps, 

"Manila, P. I., Dec. i8th, 1899. 

"Major George H. Penrose, 

"Brigade Surgeon, U. S. Vols. 
"Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Division Commander, Major- 
General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. Volunteers, in his final report dated October 
9th, 1899, 'of an expedition to the Province of Cavite, Luzon, P. I., June loth 
to 22d, 1899,' recommended you for Brevet Colonel of Volunteers. 

"The following is an extract from the General's report: 'June loth, 
1899, Major George H. Penrose deserves special recognition for the way in 
which he handled the critical situation in which he was placed in the morning's 
advance, when liis hospital flag was fired upon and his horse wounded.' Page 
10 of Report. 

" Very respectfully, 

(Signed) "Clarence R. Edwards, 
"Lieut-Col. 47th Infantry, 
"Actg. Asst. Adjutant Genl." 

In 1900 and during a part of 1901, Major Penrose was chief 
surgeon of the Second District, Department of Southern Luzon, 

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Captain George Hoffman Penrose (No. 524). 



THE PENROSE FAMD y 



General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. Volunteers, in his final report, dated Septem- 
ber >fanex|- ^ ; Ecija and 
P-.v /.on. P. I., rthern Ex- 
; mended you for Brevet LieuleaaQt-Colouci of Volunteers, under 
_r , S. 

'^ The toUow-ing is an extract from the General's report of that expedition : 
" ' In the afternoon of the 17th after the battle of San Isidro, several insurgent 
wounded were reported on the field of the morning's fight outside of our lines. 
Major George H. Penrose, Brigade Surgeon, U. S. Vols., accompanied by ist 
Lieutenant Franklin M. Kemp, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, with ambu- 
lances, w, to care for and bring in the wounded. The officers met a 
few nnM' took to be insurgents and unhesitatingly attempted to cap- 
tun ers in hand rode down two of them, and found their rifles in 



the 



lorses at the ford, rC- 
: the enemy concealed 
-he hospital.' 



.(lisg .oM) aaoaza'f vikuH-ioU aojioaO kiatia'J 



to>99. 



. you that the Division Commander, Maior- 
f^P Lawton, U- S. Volunteers, in his final report dated O 

otli, ..,-., '. — ...pedition to the Province of Cavite, Luzon, P. I., Jun 
to : 2d, 1899,' recommended you for Brevet Colonel of Volunteers. 

"The following is an extract from the General's report: 'June loth, 
1899. Major Georce H. Penrose deserves special recognition for the way in 
vyji; •• . acedinthe morning's 

ji^jy jrse wounded.' Page 

10 of Report. 

s, ^ " Very respectfully^ 

(Signed) "Clarence R. Edwards, 
"Lieut-Col. 47th Infantry, 
"Actg. Asst. Adjutant Gen ' 

during a ptirt of 1.901, Major Penrose was chief 
surgeon of the Second D epartment of Southern Luzon, 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 



and during the latter year he returned to the United States, very 
much broken in health consequent upon his arduous and con- 
tinuous field service. On 19 April, 1901, he was commissioned 
captain and quartermaster in the U. S. Army, and is now in 
service at Seattle, Washington. He married, 22 October, 1901, 
Katharine Oden, daughter of William Oden Hughart by his 
wife Sarah Mahon Page. 

Captain Penrose has for many years been interested in the 
genealogy of the Penrose family, and his valuable collections in 
this direction were placed in the hands of the present writer at 
the commencement of this work. 




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APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 

Address of Honorable CHARLES BINGHAM 

PENROSE, BEFORE THE SeNATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 

13 March, 1841, on the Occasion of His Resign- 
ing AS Speaker of that Body. 

" Senators : Circumstances have occurred which induce me to 
resign the office of Speaker at a period in the session somewhat 
earHer than that which has been indicated by the prevaiHng 
usage of this body. If I were about to sever the connection 
which has subsisted between myself and the Senate of Penn- 
sylvania for so many years under ordinary circumstances, I 
might perhaps content myself with a simple annunciation of the 
fact of my resignation, and confine myself to the expression of 
the profound gratitude with which I have been penetrated for 
the uniform kindness and friendly courtesy I have experienced 
at the hands of every one of its members. But there is some- 
thing perhaps in the position which I now occupy — something 
in the act which I am about to perform — which may excuse me 
for craving your indulgence for one moment, while I suggest 
some of those reflections which the pecuUarity of my situation 
may render not inappropriate to the occasion. 

"I am about to surrender the high trust which your generous 
confidence has confided to me, and this act is to be only pre- 
cursor of my final separation from a body with which I have 
been connected for eight years, and over which I have had the 
honor to preside for a very considerable portion of that time. 
Here, in the service of the pubUc, I have spent a very large por- 
tion of my active life ; here in the society of my equals I have 
found those sympathetic associations, and framed those warm 
personal attachments which have entwined themselves about 
my heart, and will only cease to influence that heart when its 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



last pulse shall have ceased to beat. To me it is an epoch in a 
life which has been cast in a very eventful period, and has not 
been either without its labors or its vicissitudes. I may be 
excused therefore, under these circumstances, standing as I do 
upon a hne which is about to separate me from connections so 
dear — if I should ask you to bear with me, for one moment, while 
I endeavor to cast an eye of retrospection over the long tract of 
time which it has been my fortune to traverse as a public man. 

"The period of my connection with this body has been one of 
no ordinary moment in the history of our common country and 
our glorious Commonwealth. Of its pohtical incidents and 
changes I have nothing to say. I would not, on an occasion 
which, to me, possesses so much of tenderness as this, jar even a 
nerve which might possibly vibrate unpleasantly under the rec- 
ollection of past pohtical conflicts. I do not deprecate the 
strife of party. There is so much of good and evil mingled in 
our cup, in all the conditions of hfe, that he who would refuse 
the one because he cannot separate it from the other, must often 
run the risk of sacrificing both. These party differences, by 
which we may have been divided, are perhaps essential to the 
existence of that unsleeping vigilance by which alone republican 
institutions can be preserved. If there be evil in them, we have 
the consolation of knowing that there is at the same time so 
much of good that it would be difficult for any man to affirm 
that it would be better for him that they did not exist at all. 

"For my own part, as an individual, I can truly say, on look- 
ing round my brethren here, that however fruitful the long 
period to which I have referred may have been of party contests 
of the fiercest character, there is not one of them which has left 
a sting in my bosom, the recollection of which occasions any, the 
slightest, unkindness of feehngs towards any individual member 
of the Senate — any emotion which I would blush to disclose on 
this my final separation from those with whom I have so long co- 
operated in the advancements of the interests of this great State. 

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APPENDIX. 



"I do not, gentlemen, propose to fatigue you by details. 
They would be inconsistent with the occasion and equally in- 
applicable to the purposes with which I set out. When I de- 
sired your attention to a portion of my last career, it was only 
with a view of furnishing you with a rapid survey of the acts in 
which I have participated, for the purpose of exhibiting the great 
principles which have constantly directed my conduct as a pub- 
lic man. 

"It is scarcely necessary for me to say that I came into public 
life a much younger man than I am now — with all the sensibih- 
ties of an ardent nature, stimulated by a devoted attachment to 
the benign institutions under which I have been reared, which 
has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength. 
I came too, allow me to add, under the influence of these feelings, 
with an earnest determination to signalize, if I practically could, 
my connection with the Legislature of my native State, by leaving 
behind me some evidence, at least, if not of profitable service to 
the Commonwealth, of the earnest desire I had felt to testify my 
gratitude and my devotion to the best interests of those whose 
generous confidence had sent me here. In the pursuit of this 
object I endeavored to keep my eye steadily fixed upon that 
great life-giving and life-sustaining principle which is so strongly 
announced in that glorious declaration which adorns your walls, 
that Government was established among men for the benefit of 
the governed ; and if I have departed in a single instance from 
that polar star which has been fixed in our political firmament 
for the purpose of directing the course of the representative, I 
have the consolation of reflecting that the departure was insen- 
sible to me. I had, however, higher duties and broader obliga- 
tions than those which referred exclusively to the people from 
whom I came. I was a Pennsylvanian by birth as well as edu- 
cation — proud of the ancient Commonwealth in which my 
destiny had been cast, and wedded to her interests by ties as 
strong as those which connect the child with the mother by whom 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



he has been borne. The early instincts of the child had been 
approved and strengthened by the riper judgment of the man. 
If I had no other merit, I was at all events a Pennsylvanian, and 
I felt that I owed an allegiance to the great State of which I had 
been constituted one of the representatives in this body. And 
worthy indeed was she then, and does she still continue to be, of 
the highest attachment of all her sons. 

"Rich in resources which place her in the front rank of this 
glorious sisterhood of Commonwealths, endowed by a bountiful 
Creator with inexhaustible stores of mineral wealth, possessing 
a fertility of soil and a beautiful variety of scenery such as might 
well enchant the imagination and captivate the heart, and dis- 
tinguished above all by a teeming population of hardy, indus- 
trious, moral, and in a very high degree intellectual citizens, she 
may well be regarded by them as an object no less of pride than 
of affection. To promote her interests and advance her pros- 
perity, then, was one of the motives nearest to my heart when 
I took my seat in this General Assembly eight years ago, as it has 
since constituted one of my purest sources of dehght throughout 
the whole period of my services as a public man. 

"What was the condition of the Commonwealth at the period 
to which I refer ? Much, it is true, had then been done to ad- 
vance her great interests, but much yet remained to do. Her 
physical energies had been cultivated to a large extent ; her on- 
ward progress had already been distinguished by achievements 
so stupendous that all the monuments — all that has been re- 
corded of ancient times would dwindle into insignificance in the 
comparison — so stupendous, indeed, that if by some great 
calamity our very name had been blotted from the historic page, 
the philosophical inquirer in after times would have found in our 
very ruins the evidences that here a mighty people had once lived 
and flourished. Something, however, and that something of 
great value, yet remained to be accomplished for the interests of 
this great State. With all her physical resources and develop- 

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APPENDIX. 



ments, she lacked a system, a broad and generous system, for 
the intellectual improvement of her people. While everything 
had been done to unlock the rich treasures of her variegated sur- 
face, the enlightened hand of legislation had not yet struck that 
rock from which the sweet waters of knowledge have since so 
abundantly flowed. 

"When I entered this Hall, my first and most anxious desire 
was to supply this defect by giving to the people of this Common- 
wealth a system which would shed the light of moral and intel- 
lectual improvement, as the sun of Heaven flings his broad 
radiance ahke over the humblest and the most exalted of her 
citizens ; and it is one of the proudest of my recollections that I 
had the honor to occupy an humble but secondary position in 
the great work which was commenced in the Legislature of Penn- 
sylvania, by a distinguished Senator from the county of Phil- 
adelphia (the Hon. Samuel Breck), who is entitled to the high 
distinction of having laid the first stone in our present glorious 
edifice of popular education. It has been my fortune both to 
witness and assist the growth of that edifice. It is now far 
advanced towards completion, and I trust will go on from per- 
fection to perfection, until we shall be able to say, that however 
much we may have done to develop the physical resources of 
this State, we have done still more for the improvement of those 
higher faculties which distinguish man from all that is below him 
in the order of existence, and exalt him into a nearer communion 
with that Being in whose image he was created. But, while thus 
regardful of the intellectual and moral wants of our citizens, I 
may confidently say that I was not indifferent to the further im- 
provement of the physical condition of the State. 

"Although the representative of a district which had never 
shared but in a very limited degree in the benefits conferred by 
our great system of Internal Improvements, I did not withhold 
my hand from its support ; and I rejoice to say that during the 
period of my connection with this Senate I have rendered some 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



assistance in pushing forward that system towards its com- 
pletion. That we have committed an occasional error, every 
candid man among us must acknowledge. That, however, is 
one of the conditions of our existence, political as well as moral ; 
and if we have committed errors it is to be remembered, in our 
excuse, that they are inseparable from an experiment so novel 
and so magnificent as that in which we have so boldly embarked. 

"To my own constituents, for whose attachment towards me I 
shall be forever grateful, I can point as an evidence of my labors 
here, to a great pubhc work now passing through the beautiful 
valley in which they are located, and affording an outlet to its 
varied productions, while it has opened to the eye of the tourist 
a new source of delight in the unrivalled charms of its rich and 
variegated scenery. 

"In the onward progress of the system on which I have been 
commenting, there have been from time to time difficulties to 
encounter, and prejudices to overcome, which can scarcely be 
appreciated by those who have made their appearance in these 
halls within the last few years. They have been happily sur- 
mounted, as they appeared ; but there is one among them of so 
curious a character, and so strikingly illustrative, when com- 
pared with the present times, of the rapid progress of public 
opinion and public improvement during the last few years, that 
I cannot forbear to give it a place in the remarks which I am now 
making. It was the famous struggle between the horse and the 
locomotive — between the application of animal and mechanical 
power on the railroads of this Commonwealth. It may seem 
strange to those who are in the daily habit of witnessing the 
arrival and departure from our depots of that wonderful monu- 
ment of human ingenuity — the locomotive engine — that the 
question of its introduction upon our roads was one which shook 
these halls only a few short years ago, and was decided by but a 
single vote. I remember the contest well, although I do not see a 
gentleman around me now who was present then. And I re- 

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member, too, that the casting vote was given by myself. Who 
will doubt now the propriety of the decision? Who will not 
wonder that it should ever have been a question ? 

"There was one other great measure to which I will call your 
attention. It was a measure of relief. At an early period of 
the Commonwealth, its Legislature, influenced by what might 
have been then considered an enhghtened view of the question, 
or governed perhaps by narrow reasons of State policy, in order 
to enforce the payment of the purchase money still remaining due 
upon the lands within its boundaries, had required that the debts 
thus incurred should be compounded at an usurious rate of in- 
terest. By this process of accumulation those debts had in- 
creased to such a fearful extent that in districts not unfortunately 
blessed with the fertility which distinguishes our valley, we were 
about to expel, by this inexorable measure of legislation, an 
honest, industrious, patriotic population, infinitely more valuable 
to the State than the whole amount of the debt with which they 
were oppressed. In the struggle with that system it was my 
pleasure to have borne a part ; and after a contest of some years, 
a more enhghtened spirit of legislation discovering the advantage 
of retaining a population, which was invited by the more liberal 
policy of the General Government to seek a new home in the fair 
forests and fat prairies of the boundless west, prevailed in the 
councils of this State. The effect of their moderation was soon 
apparent in the preservation and increase of our people, that best 
resource and highest element of the prosperity of nations. 

"I shall not detain you longer with a recapitulation of the 
events which have marked the period of my service in this body. 
Nor having done, will I undertake to say of my political career, 
that it has been without its faults. It is not in human nature 
to escape from error. We come into this life with a heavy weight 
of infirmity upon us, which we are doomed to carry with us to its 
close ; and I have only to ask of those who may be disposed, if 
any such there be, to dwell unkindly on my errors, to allow me at 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



least the charitable drawback of an honest purpose, misled oc- 
casionally, if they choose, by the enthusiasm of an ardent tem- 
perament. They will find, I trust, upon an examination of my 
public career, that if I have fallen into errors, they have uni- 
formly sprung from a sincere desire to advance the interests 
and the honor of the great State of which I am a citizen. 

"And now, brother Senators, I am about to close my connec- 
tion with this body, and to separate from men, towards each of 
whom I have no other or weaker feelings than those of sympathy 
and kindness. I could fain have hoped that in leaving this field 
of my past labors, in tearing myself away from those who have 
been the partners of many of my toils as well as gratifications, 
that the condition of our glorious Commonwealth had been less 
embarrassing than it now is. I feel, gentlemen, that I leave you 
to sustain a heavy weight of responsibility, but I confide, per- 
mit me to say, confide fully in your integrity and wisdom in this 
the hour of our common trouble. I leave you under the sincere 
conviction of your general desire to re-establish the fortunes of 
our native State, and to restore prosperity and happiness to her 
people. To her and her fortunes you are wedded for good and 
for evil. She is your common parent, and they are your common 
constituents, bound to you as you are bound to them, by the 
triple cord of duty, interest and affection, the most enduring ties 
which can bind man to man, or exercise an influence over the 
human heart on this side of that eternity to which we are all fast 
hastening. I feel and know that you will not disappoint the con- 
fidence which has invested you with the high trusts which you 
severally and collectively hold, but that you will so discharge the 
duties which you owe to those constituents as shall redound to 
the fame and honor of our common State. While, therefore, I 
sympathize deeply over the difficulties and distress which sur- 
round you, I take with me the consolation that out of evil your 
patriotism, intelUgence and firmness, cannot fail eventually to 

produce good. That result is certainly not unattainable. 

140 



APPENDIX. 



Diflficult though the task be, it is still within your power. There 
is nothing irretrievable in the condition in which we are placed. 
You have only to turn to the vast treasury of your resources. 
Look at the hnes of your pubHc improvements — think of the 
wealth which is locked up in the bosoms of your hills — cast your 
eyes over the surface of your smiling and productive valleys — 
contemplate the thousands upon thousands of patriotic and in- 
dustrious people with which our territory is swarming through- 
out its whole extent — lay down all this picture before you, and 
then despair if it be possible. 

"You have difficulties, it is true, but with all these resources, 
and, what is still better, with wise heads, strong hands and 
steady hearts, our great State may yet be released from all the 
embarrassments which now surround her. It is your task now, 
and not mine; but though separated from you in person, my 
heart will continue to be with you at every step in your progress, 
and my prayers shall be offered that when you come to close, as I 
am now doing, your connections with this body, you may be able 
to look back with pleasure to difficulties overcome — to noble 
achievements effected, and to contentment and abundance re- 
stored to the face of a smiling land. 

"I linger with you but for one moment longer and that to say 
'Farewell.' I look around this chamber, which eight years ago 
I entered as one of the humblest of its members, and I do not, so 
far as my recollection now serves me, see a single face of all those 
with whom I was then associated. How transitory and fleeting 
are all the incidents of this life in which we take so much in- 
terest ! How perishable are all the enjoyments which surround 
and connect us with the busy world on which we move! Of 
those, the earliest of my contemporaries, some have returned to 
their constituents, to enjoy the approving voice of public thanks 
for duties well fulfilled. Of others, many others — the mortal 
frames are now sleeping beneath the clods of the valley, while 
their immortal spirits have gone to render an account of the still 

141 



THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



higher trust with which they have been commissioned from on 
high. What a picture is here! How rapidly do we pass away! 
How like are we, with all our high hopes and towering aspira- 
tions, to the grass which withereth, or the vapor which is melted 
away before the breath of the morning ! 

" Brother Senators : I am impressed with a deep sense of the 
solemnity of this occasion as well in reference to the picture 
which I have presented, as to my own personal connection with 
this body. I now separate from you. And here, in the moment 
of that separation, allow me to offer you my earnest, my pro- 
found, my heartfelt acknowledgments for the kindness, the re- 
gard, the courtesy which you, on all occasions, have so gener- 
ously extended towards me. Wherever I go I shall bear with me 
the recollection of my intercourse with you as one of the sweetest 
consolations of my life, and whatever may be my future destiny 
in this changing world, my most ardent prayers shall ever ascend 
for the prosperity of our glorious Commonwealth, and the 
happiness and welfare of every individual amongst you. 

"Gentlemen: The trust which you have so generously con- 
fided to me — the high trust which has been honored by so many 
abler administrators, and still more honored by the intellectual 
and moral character of the body with which it is connected, is 
now surrendered back, unimpaired, I trust, either in usefulness 
or dignity, into the hands of you by whom it was so generously 
conferred. " 



142 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PACE 


Adams, Amelia Alexander, 


I 20 


Ash, Francis Penrose, 


91 


George B., 


91, 119 


Harriet Penrose, 


69 


Hallack Penrose, 


119 


Joseph, 


51 


Harriet Elizabeth, 


119, 120 


Joseph Penrose, 


91 


Hiram, Rev., 


119 


Penrose, 


68 


Sarah, 


33.57 


Rebecca, 


68 


Thomas, Hon., 


57 


Sarah, 


69 


William Henry, 


119 


William, 


91 


AUeyne, Abel, 


106 


William G., 


69 


Isabella Elizabeth Wood- 


Ashbridge, Elizabeth Archer, 


94 


bridge, 


106 


Ashmead, Bella Maria, 


68,91 


Thomas, 


106 


Esther, 


IS 


Allinson, Edward P., 


121 


John, 


91 


Ambler, Andrew, 


27 


Mary (Mrs.), 


IS 


Ann, 


27 


AtUe, Edward Pitt, Dr., 


58 


Ann Elizabeth, 


27 


George Bullock, 


58 


Edward, 


27 


John, Col., 


58 


Elizabeth, 


27 


Mary Wayne, 


59. 74 


Hannah, 


27 


William Eichardson, 


38,58 


Isaac, 


27 






Sarah, 


27 


Backman, William 


75 


WilUam, 


27 


Bacon, Sarah, 


92 


Amos, Hannah (Mrs.), 


18 


Bampton, Henry, 


9 


Mary, 


18 


Barge, Ehzabeth (Mrs.), 


27 


William, 


18 


John, 


27 


Andairese, Clara, 


89, no 


Barnard, Lydia, 


56 


James Wheeler, Dr., 


no 


Bartlett, Charlotte, 


78 


Anderson, Charles Penrose, 


76 


Battiscomb, Richard, 


9 


Emily Norwood, 


76 


Bayly, Janet, S3 


57.73 


Francis Tete, 


76 


John, 


57 


Harry, 


76 


Bearden, Mary Eliza, 


100 


Joseph, 


76 


Beesley, Charlotte Wister, 


94 


Marie Carohne Tete 


76 


Bell, Sarah William, 


102 


Mary Ann, 


76,98 


Bentley, George, 


77 


Samuel V., 


75 


John Henry, 


77 


William von Albade, 


63- 75. 76 


Beylie, Irma Josephine, 


76 


Anthony, Joseph 


61 


Biddle, Ann, 


89 


ap Owen, Samuel, 


40 


Clement, Col., 


47' 67 


Armstrong, Elizabeth Jane, 


122 


Edward, Hon., 


88 


Arnold, Benedict, Gen., 


34 


Elizabeth, 


47 


Ash, Caleb, 


68 


John, 46 


. 47, 88 


Caleb Lownes, 


68,91 


Joseph, 


47 


Francis, 


69 


Lydia, 


47 



143 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Biddle, Mary, 


47 


Burton, Robert, 


82 


Owen, 


47 


Butler, Jane Vaughan, 


113 


Penelope, 


47 


John Henry, 


"3 


Sarah, '. 


25. 46, 47 






Valeria Fullerton, 


68,88 


Calvert, Elizabeth, 


71 


William, Hon., 


46 


Nathaniel, 


71 


William, Jr., 


46,47 


Cambridge, Susan (Mrs.), 


20 


William McFunn, 


88 


Camp, Rebecca Frances, 


"3 


Bingham, Anne, 


67 


Campbell, Mason, 


100 


Anne Howard, 


50,66 


Virginia Mason, 


100 


Charies, Maj., 


66, 67 


Cannell, Gertrude Louisa, 


101 


Bispham, George Tucker, 


119 


S. Wilmer, 


lOI 


Blakiston, Presley, 


57 


Carew, Richard, 


2 


Blight, Charles Penrose, 


108 


Carner, Albert B., 


73 


Cornelia Taylor, 


108 


Carr, Annie Laura, 


119 


Elihu Spencer, 


108 


Josephine Stokes, 


28 


George Wain, 


107 


William Hart, 


28 


Isaac Oliver, 


108 


Catherwood, John H., 


83 


Lydia Spencer, 


108 


Mary Cummins, 


83 


William Sergeant, Sr., 


89, 107 


Charles, Ameha, 


112 


William Sergeant, Jr., 


108 


Richard, 


no 


Boies, Jeremiah Smith Hubbard, io6 


Chase, Ebenezer, 


75 


Sarah Hannah, 


89, 106 


Chew, Benjamin, 


107 


Boric, Beauveau, Sr., 


100 


Samuel, Col., 


107 


Beauveau, Jr., 


100 


Churchill, Frank Spooner, 


78 


Patty, 


100 


Lucretia Mott, 


78 


Borlase, William, Dr., 


2 


Richard Hallowell, 


78 


Bowditch, Margaret Ingersoll, 79 


Winthrop, 


78 


Bowyer, John, 


15 


Clairborne, Charlotte Virginia, 


102 


Boyd, Mary, 


82 


Clapp, Benjamin Franklin, 


18 


Boylan, Euclid, Gen., 


126, 127 


Enoch, 


18 


Brainerd, John, Rev., 


88 


Nathan Tyson, 


18 


Braithwaite, Margaret, 


55 


Clark, Ann, 


119 


Brett, John, 


20 


Hannah, 


57 


Mary, 


20 


Clarke, Benjamina Woodbridge, 


106 


Bright, Camille Adele Maria 


89, 112 


Joseph, Dr., 


106 


George Young, 


112 


Clay, Cassius M., 


91 


Brocke, George, 


7 


Clayton, Mary, 


7 


Brooke, Sarah, 


81 


Clifton, W., 


62 


Brown, George, 


119 


Clinton, Ann Hoffman, 


120 


Harriet Elizabeth, 


119 


Charies Paul, 


120 


Jacob, Maj. -Gen., 


119 


James, Gen., 


36 


John, 


119 


James B., 


120 


Letitia, 


94 


James Wilkinson, 


120 


Samuel, Maj., 


119 


Joseph B., 


91 


Buckley, Anna Penrose, 


81,99 


Lucille Warner, 


120 


Clement Adam. 


66,81 


Mary Ada, 


120 


Clementina, 


81 


Coats, Abraham, 


25 


Daniel, 


81 


Isaac, 


25 


Daniel Penrose, 


81 


Jane, 


25 


Emily Adele, 


81 


John, 


25 


Bullock, Marie A., 


74 


Mary, 


25 


Burling, Caroline, 


102 


Sarah, i 


7.25 


Burton, Anna Maria, 


66,82 


Warwick, Sr., 


25 



144 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Coats, Warwick, Jr., Capt., 


25 


Davis, EHzabeth Corbitt, 


77 


William, 


22 


Esther, 


92 


Cobb, Clement Biddle Penrose 


', no 


Hallowell, 


79 


Dorothy Penrose, 


no 


Horace Andrew, 


79 


Emily Linnard, 


no 


Horace Bancroft, 


79 


Henry Evertson, Rev., 


109 


Isaac Roberts, 


77 


Oliver Ellsworth, 


no 


Nathaniel, 


56 


Oliver Ellsworth, Rev., 


109 


Sarah Ann, 


56 


Sanford, 


109 


Sarah Haydock, 


79 


Cochran, Anne Cannell, 


lOI 


Thomas, 


92 


Harriet Penrose, 


lOI 


De Ford, Edith Robinson, 


102 


Peyton Skipwith, 


lOI 


Thomas, 


102 


Travis, 


101 


de Lafayette, Marquis, 


36 


William, 


82, lOI 


De Lancey, James, Gov., 


88 


William G., 


lOI 


de Maupassant, Lodoiska, 


no 


Cody, W. F., 


n6 


de Penrose, Dionisia, 




Collins, Alice Latimer, 


93 


Godfrey, 




Ann Penrose,* 


69 


Mary, 




Ann Penrose,' 


92,93 


Nicliolae, 




Anne Penrose,^ 


92 


Richard, 




Charles Penrose,* 


69, 92 


Dewey, Mary M., 


77 


Charles Penrose,' 


92 


Dickinson, John, 




Charles Penrose,^ 


92 


Dixon, Fitz Eugene, 


100 


Charles Rowan, 


92 


Harriet, 


100 


Harietta R., 


93 


Donald, Jessie Coburn, 


78 


Harry Graham, 


93 


Dowd, Laura Ceciha, 


76 


Harry Penrose,' 


92 


Dowding, Ann, 


25, 42, 43 


Harry Penrose,^ 


92 


Joseph, 


43>44 


Jonathan Penrose,' 


69, 92 


Leonard, 


44 


Jonathan Penrose,' 


92 


Rebecca, 


43 


Mary, 


92 


Sandy, 


43 


Mary Alice, 


92,93 


Drake, Edwin L., Col., 


76 


Mary Penrose, 


69 


Mary Laura, 


76 


Mary Russell, 


93 


Drexel, Joseph W., 


122 


Sally Penrose, 


69 


Katharine, 


122 


Thomas, Gov., 


69 


Duche, Anthony, 


25.43 


Wilham, 


55 


Jacob, Rev., 


43 


WilUam Thomas, 


93 


Dudley, Mercy, 


107 


Wilham Turpin, 


92 


Roger, Capt., 


107 


Cook, Joel, 


75 


Thomas, Gov., 


107 


Corcoran, Julia Cecilia, 


81 


Dutton, Mary (Mrs.), 


25 


Cottman, Rebecca, 


28 






Coules, Thomas, 


9 


Edwards, Clarence R., 


128 


Crosby, Ann, 


72 


Jonathan, Rev., 


88 


Robert P., 


56 


Eells, Gushing, Prof., 


124 


Sarah Ann (Mrs.), 


56 


Emlen, Calebina, 


99 


Crowell, George G., 


73 


Emmes, Abigail, 


60 


Cumming-Gordon, Gordon Wil- 


Emmet, Robert, 


54 


liam, Sir, 


2 


Emory, Ann Penrose, 


76 


Cummins, Mary Ellen, 


83 


Ellen Harriet, 


76 






Harry Ogden, 


76 


Dallas, Catharine Chew, 


100 


John McCallum, 


76 


Davis, Ann Coffin, 


78 


Eshleman, EUzabeth E., 


70 


Edward M., 


78 


Etwell, John, 


8 



145 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Evans, Hugh, 


27 


Hall, Wilham, Hon., 


65 


Isaacher, 


59.74 


Hallowell, Anna, 


77 


Joseph M., 


27 


Annah Norwood, 


79 


Thomas, 


27 


Charles Tyson, 


77 


Wilbur, 


27 


Charlotte Bartlett, 


79 


William, 


75 


CorneHa, 


78 


Ewing, John H., Hon., 


86 


Edward Needles, 


78 


Samuel, 


83 


Emily, 


79,80 


E)T:e, Ann, 


57 


Esther Fisher, 


80 


Jehu, Col., 


107 


Francis Walton, 


78 






Isaac Roberts Davis, 


78 


Falkner, Lester, 


24. 25 


James Mott, 


78 


Feast, Sidney, 


9 


John White, 


80 


Felt, May Emily, 


76 


Lucretia Mott, 


78 


Field, Ann, 


119 


Maria, 


78 


Fife, Elizabeth, 


75 


Mary Bowditch, 


79 


Fisk, Louisa, 


73 


Morris Longstreth,* 


64,77 


Samuel, 


73 


Morris Longstreth,^ 


80 


Fitzgerald, Edward, Lord, 


54 


Morris Longstreth,' 


78 


Fleeson, Ann, 


25.51 


Norwood Penrose,* 


77. 79 


Catharine (Mrs.), 


51 


Norwood Penrose,' 


79 


Plunket, 


51 


Penrose, 


78 


Ford, Hannah, 


57 


Richard Price, 2d, 


78 


Foulke, Benjamin G., 


30 


Richard Price, 


78.79 


Job Roberts, 


30 


Robert Haydock, 


79 


Fraley, Frederick, 


86 


Susan Morris, 


80 


Freeman, Alice, 


44 


William Penrose,' 


77,78 


Edward, 


44 


William Penrose,' 


78 


Fremont, John C, Maj.-Gen., 


78 


Hamilton, Rowan, 


54 






Hancock, Frederick, 


69 


Gano, Emma Meminger, 


94 


Hansom, Timothy, 


43,44 


Glading, James, 


75 


Hanson, John B., 


64 


Jane, 


63.75 


Hardenburgh, Agnes, 


78 


Goldney, Thomas, 


8 


Harding, Louise Tucker, 


78 


Goodale, William E., 


75 


Harmer, Josiah, Gen., 


37 


Goodell, WilHam, Prof., 


122 


Harrington, EHnor, 


119 


Gorgas, Keturah, 


74 


Harris, Matilda P., 


108 


Graham, Catharine, 


33 


Harrison, William Henry, Gen 


, 70, 86 


Catharine G., 


56 


Hart, Burdette, Rev., 


73 


Henry Hale, Hon. 


56 


Elizabeth, 


28 


James H., Hon., 


104 


Mary A., 


73 


William, Capt., 


33 


Hartranft, John Frederick, Gov., 108 


Grant, Ulysses S., Gen., 


115 


Harvey, Marion, 


73 


Green, Giles, 


12 


WilHam, 


73 


Nathaniel, Gen., 


36 


Hawksworth, Richard, 








Hay, Alexander, 


66 


Hagarty, Ann, 


81 


James Douglass Hamilton, 


Hageman, John F., 


108 


Sir, 


66 


Hale, Dorothy (Mrs.), 


25 


Thomas, Sir, 


66 


Mary, 


25 


Haydock, Robert, 


79 


Warwick, 


25 


Sarah Wharton, 


79 


Hall, Cassandra, 


26, 51 


Head, Josephine, 


64 


Clement, 


65 


Heele, Dorothy (Mrs.), 


25 


Sarah, 


65 


Mar}-, 


25 



146 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Heele, Warwick, 


25 


Jarrett, Mary, 


30 


Henderson, R. M., 


104 


Morris P., 


30 


Herman, H C, 


104 


Rebecca, 


30 


HiU, Thomas, 


54. 55 


Richard, 


30 


Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 


53 


Samuel, 


30 


Hodge, Charles, Dr., 


109 


Sarah P., 


30 


Hugh L., Dr., 


105 


Tacy, 


30 


Thomas Leiper, 


109 


Wilham L., 


30 


Hoffman, Mary Ann, 


90 


Jefferson, Thomas, Presiden 


t, 67,83 


Wilham, Gen., 


90 


Johnson, Ann, 


28 


Hoopes, Charles, 


58 


Wilham, Maj., 


100 


Clara, 


58 


Jones, Charles Frederick, 


lOI 


David, 


33> 57 


Charlotte Frederica, 


102 


Da\'id J., 


58 


Elhot Penrose, 


102 


EHzabeth Butcher, 


58 


John Ralston, 


102 


Jane, 


58 


William, Hon., 


64 


John Robinson, 


58 






Joseph, 


58 


Keating, EulaUe, 


100 


Mary Mcllvaine, 


58 


Keith, Charles Penrose, 


14, 82 


Morris Joseph, 


58 


Samuel, 


82 


Penrose Robinson, 


58 


Sidney, 


83 


Thomas Myers, 


58 


Sidney Washington, 


83 


William Graham, 


58 


Washington, 


66,82 


Hooton, Francis Carpenter, 


Col., 


Kelly, Emily L., 


107 




82, lOI 


Kemp, Sarah, 


46 


Mary Penrose, 


102 


King, John E., 


120 


Howard, Anne, 


66 


Kirll, Brett, 


20 


Sheffield, 


66 


John, 


20 


Howell, Thomas, 


123 


Joseph, 


20 


Hubbard, William, Hon., 


106, 107 


Joseph Brett, 


20 


Hughart, Katharine Oden, 


117. 131 


Mary, 


17, 20 


Wilham Oden, 


131 


Susan, 


20 


Hulbeart, Philip, 


22 


Knight, Robert, 


9 


Hutcheson, Ann (Mrs.), 


51 


Knowles, Mary, 


6g, 92 


Jonathan, 


51 


William, 


92 


Hutchinson, James, Dr., 


47 


Knox, Jane (Mrs.), 


25 


Hutton, Eliza Plumsted, 


82 










Latrobe, Charlotte Fernande 


, 102 


Iddings, Elizabeth, 


33 


Ellen Virginia, 


102 






Ferdinand C, Hon., 


82, IC2 


Jackson, Andrew, President 


84 


Ferdinand Claiborne, 


102 


Rebecca Borland, 


79 


John H. B., 


IC2 


Janeway, Martha Gray, 


109 


Lawrence, Ann Middleton, 


lOI 


Jarrett, Abel P., 


30 


Lawton, Henry Ware, Maj.- 


Gen., 


Ann, 


30 




127, 128 


David, 


30 


Le Archer, Peter, 


4 


Elizabeth, 


30 


Lee, Charles, Gen., 


35 


Hannah, 


30 


Robert, Gen., 


115, 116 


Isaac, 


30 


Leech, Esther, 


IS 


Jane, 


30 


Isaac, 


16, 27 


John, 


30 


Jacob, Capt., 


16 


Jonathan,' 


19.30 


John, ] 


5, 16,21 


Jonathan,^ 


30 


Rachel, 


27 


Jonathan,' 


30 


Thomas, 


16 



147 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Leech, Toby, Sr., 15 


, 16, 27 


Mcllvain, or 




Toby, Jr., 


16 


Mcllvaine, James Patrick, 


71 


Lefevre, Hannah (Mrs.), 


20 


John, 


56.70 


Mary, 


20 


Martha (Mrs.), 


71 


Lehman, Anna, 


91 


Mary Elizabeth, 


71 


Levick, Lewis J., 


30 


Mary Robinson, 


72 


Samuel J., 


30 


Sallie Robinson, 


72 


Lincoln, Abraham, Pres't, 71,91 


.95.1" 


Sarah, 


56 


Linnard, James M., Capt., 


109 


Sarah Crosby Morton, 


72 


Mary, 


89, 109 


Sarah Gibson, 


71 


Stephen Beasley, 


109 


Spencer Lightner, 


72 


William, Capt., 


109 


Susan Humphrey, 


56 


Linton, Martha, 


51 


Thomas M., 


70 


Livezey, Sarah, 


19, 27 


WilHam, 


56,72 


Thomas, 


27 


William H., 


70,71 


Lloyd, Mary, 


92 


William Robinson, 


72 


Thomas, Gov., 


123 


Mclntyre, Catharine, 


76 


Loeser, Sidney Harvey, 


72 


McLean, Maria EHzabeth, 


99 


Logan, James, 


12, 13 


Samuel, 


99 


Longstreth, Ann, 


77 


McVeagh, Wayne, Hon., 


121 


Elizabeth, 


29 


McWhorter, Alexander, Rev., 


88 


Isaac, 


29 


Magaw, Robert, Col., 


31 


Rachel W., 


58 


Maginnis, Arthur Ambrose, 


128 


Loud, Joseph Prince, 


78 


Laura Mary Elizabeth, 


[12,128 


Lowber, Edward, 


81 


Maglaughlin, C. E., 


104 


William Twells, 


81 


Maguire, Margaret A., 


76 


Lowe, Edward, 


8 


Manning, Ann, 


44 


Elizabeth (Mrs.), 


8 


Mason, Carita Douglass, 


102 


Lownes, Rebecca, 


68 


Eliza, 


80 


Lowry, Stephen, Col., 


89 


J. Frank, Dr., 


102 


Lukens, Elizabeth, 


30 


Mather, Ann,' 


27 


Jonathan, 


30 


Ann, 5 


29 


Mary, 


30 


Ann T., 


28,29 


Luther, Martin, 


4 


Bartholomew, 


19,27 






Benjamin,' 19 


, 28, 29 


McCaul, Charles, 


75.97 


Benjamin,* 


29 


McFunn, WilHam, 


88 


Benjamin,' 


29 


Mcllvain, or 




Catharine M., 


29 


Mcllvaine, Abraham Robin 


son, 


Charles,* 


29 


Hon., 


70 


Charles,* 


29»30 


Abraham Robinson,^ 


56 


Charles L., 


29 


Abraham Robinson,'' 


70 


Cotton, Rev., 


44 


Albert, 


72 


Daniel, 


29 


Ann Eliza, 


72 


Edward, 


29 


Anthony Wayne, 


56 


Eleanor, 


29 


Charles, 


71,72 


Elizabeth, 


19, 28 


Crosby Morton, 


72 


Elizabeth H., 


29 


Elizabeth Mulvaney, 


72 


Elizabeth R., 


29 


Henry C, 


70 


Emily R., 


29 


Howard, 


72 


Esther, 


19 


Hugh, 


71 


George, 


28 


J. Gibson, 


72 


Hannah,' 


19.30 


James, 


33.56 


Hannah,* 


29 


James M., 


70 


Hannah B , 


30 



I4S 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Mather, Hannah P., 


29 


Minor, Mary M., 


119, 128 


Isaac, ^ 


19,29 


Monckton, Henry, Col., 


35 


Isaac,* 


27, 29 


Moore, Ann Williams, 


29 


Jane, 


29.30 


Benjamin, Rev., 


66 


Job R., 


30 


John, Dr., 


20 


John,* 


29 


Morris, Anthony Wayne, Capt., 31 


John,' 


29 


Joseph, 


65 


Jonathan, 


28 


Joshua, 


29 


Joseph,' 


18 


Lewis, 


46 


Joseph,' 


19,27 


Margaret, 


65 


Joseph,* 


29 


Mary, 


19,29 


Joseph,^ 


29 


Morton, Aaron, 


72 


Joseph T., 


29 


Sarah Crosby, 


56,72 


Joshua, 


29 


Mott, James, 


78 


Letitia, 


30 


Lucretia (Mrs.), 


78 


Lydia, 


30 


Moulder, Sarah, 


25.51 


Lydia C, 


28 


Mulvaney, Anna Garrison, 


56,71 


Mcllvaine, 


28 


P., 


71 


Martha, 


27, 28, 29 


Myers, Musadora, 


58 


Mary,' 


19 






Mary,* 


29 


Neil, Emma, 


76 


Mary Ann, 


28 


Neill, Patty, 


100 


Mary M., 


30 


Nevin, Alfred, Rev., 


88 


Penrose, 


27 


Newbold, Allen Grubb, 


100 


Phebe (Mrs.), 


19 


Anna Buckley,' 


100 


Phineas, 


29 


Anna Buckley,* 


100 


Rebecca, 


29 


Anna Scott, 


100 


Richard,^ 


17, 18 


Arthur Emlen,' 


100 


Richard,' 


19 


Arthur Emlen,* 


100 


Richard,* 


27,29 


Clement Buckley, 


14, 100 


Richard,* 


29 


Dorothy Emlen, 


100 


Robert, 


28 


Emily Buckley, 


100 


Rowland, 


29 


Fitz Eugene Dixon, 


100 


Sarah,' 


19 


Harriet Catharine, 


100 


Sarah,* 


27, 28, 29 


John Sergeant, 


100 


Sarah B., 


29 


John Smith, 


99 


Sarah K., 


29 


Mary Dickinson, 


100 


Sarah R., 


29 


Penrose Buckley, 


100 


Sarah T., 


28 


William Henry, 


99 


Susanna,* 


29 


Nicholson, Rachel, 


29 


Susanna,* 


29.30 


Norris, Isaac, 


16 


Thomas, 


27 


Norwood, Abigail (Mrs.), 


63 


Thomas T., 


28 


Annah, 


45, 60 


Matlack, Elizabeth, 


56,70 


Ebenezer, 


60 


Matthews, William, Dr., 


45 






Merchant, Charles, Gen., 


104 


O'Brien, Judge, 


109 


Valeria, 


89 103 


Ogilby, Joseph, 


SI 


Merritt, Wesley, Gen., 


92 


Orum, Davis, 


58 


Miller, Dorothy, 


119 


Margaret, 


58 


Edward, 


27 


Owen, Owen, 


47 


Elizabeth, 


19, 27 


Sarah, 


46,47 


Frank P., 


72 






W. H., 


104 


Paddy, Mercy, 


44 


Minor, John D., 


128 


William, 


44 



149 



INDEX. 









PAGK 




PAGE 


Page, S. Davis, 






121 


Penrose, Charles Bingham, 


Col., 89, 


Sarah Isabel, 






94 




no, 112 


Sarah Mahon, 






131 


Charles Bingham,^ 


68 


Parker, Ann, 






44 


Charles Bingham,' 


109, 112 


Richard, 






44 


Charles Bingham, Dr. 


, 121, 122 


Parsons, William, 






12 


Charles Bingham,* 


123 


Peale, Charles Wilson, 






38 


Charles Frederick, 


81 


Peirson, B. Frank, 






93 


Charles Henry, 


82 


Pemberton, Phineas, 






18 


Charles Vinicombe, Sir, 4, 6 


Penn, William, 


II 


12 


, 13. 15 


Charles Wilkinson, Capt., 119, 


Pennell, Abigail, 






56 




128 


Pennock, Annie Eliza, 3, 


9. 


41, 


42, 45. 


Charles Wilhams, 


98 






53 


, 64, 80 


Clement Andairese, 


112 


Elizabeth Webb, 






80 


Clement Biddle,* Hon 


•, 47. 50. 


George Webb, 






80 




66 


Isaac, 






80 


Clement Biddle,* 


68,89 


Isaac Webb, 






66,80 


Clement Biddle," 


89,90 


Margaret, 






66 


Clement Biddle," Hon 


., 89, 108 


Marian, 






80 


Clement Biddle,' 


112 


Penrose, Abigail, 






75 


Clement Biddle,* 


112, 126 


Abigail Ann, 






63 


Dorothy, 


16 


Abigail Norwood, 






63 


Eliza, 


82, 100 


Abraham, 






32 


EUzabeth (Mrs.), 


7.8,9 


Ann,* 




45 


, 55. 69 


Ehzabeth,* 


32.51 


Ann,* 






68 


Elizabeth,* 


66 


Ann (Mrs.), 




26 


. 51. 54 


EUzabeth Colegate, 


109 


Ann Howard, 






89. 113 


EUzabeth Webb, 


81 


Ann Matthews, 






66,82 


Ellen, 


82, 102 


Ann Pinkerton, 






63.75 


Ellen Widdifield, 


77 


Ann Rowan, 






lOI 


Ellen Williams, 


104 


Anna Bingham, 






91 


Emily Christine, 


103 


Anna Rowan, 






82 


Emily Linnard, 


109 


Annah, 






75 


Esther (Mrs.), 


14, 15 


Annah (Mrs.). 






63 


Fanny Maud, 


119 


Annie Gale, 






120 


Frances, 


SI 


Armenia Palmer, 






75 


Frances Shipman, 


126 


Bartholomew, Sr. 


7, 


8, 


II, 12, 


Francis, 


6 




13 


14 


15. 16 


Francis Boies, 


107 


Bartholomew, Jr. 


I 


7. 


19, 20, 


Gainor, 


30 








24.25 


George, 


6 


Bartholomew,^ 






25 


George Bright,' 


112, 126 


Boies, Hon., 




107, 121 


George Bright,* 


128 


Boies,* 






123 


George Hoffman, Capt., 119, 


Camilla Adele, 






112 




128 


Catharine Howard, 




91, 119 


Hallack Abby, 


119 


Catharine Margaret 




119 


Hannah Smith, 


64.77 


Catharine Wilkinson, 


89 


Harriet,* 


51 


Charles," 


39 


42 


. 45. 65 


Harriet,* 


66,80 


Charles, * 




64 


, 66, 74 


Helen, 


109 


Charles," 






80 


Henry, 


6 


Charles,' 






103 


Howard, 


68 


Charles, Sir, 






5 


Isaac,^ 22, 


24, 26, 51 


Charles Bingham 


Hon. 


83, 84, 


Isaac,* 


51 


85, 86, 


87. 


88, 131 


James,' 


8,9 



150 



INDEX. 





PAGE 


PAGE 


Penrose, James,' 21, 23, 


24, 25, 39, 


Penrose, Robert, 7 




40. 45. 47 


Romney, 8, 9 


James,* 


45. 55 


Sally Ann, 66 


James, ^ 


66,80 


Samuel, 30 


James Norman, 


81 


Samuel,' 22, 23, 25, 50, 51, 52 


James Wilkinson, Maj., 68, 89, 


Samuel Smith, 63, 76 




90 


Sarah (Mrs.), 22, 23, 25 


James Wilkinson," 


91, 120 


Sarah,^ 17, 18 


Jane, 


75 


Sarah,' 20, 32 


John,' 


4,6 


Sarah," 45, 51, 55 


John, Rev., 


5 


Sarah,* 66, 81 


John,3 


25 


Sarah Clementina, 89, 107 


John," 


45.50 


Sarah Hannah Boies, 123 


John Rowan, ^ 


66,81 


Sarah Hannah (Mrs.), 105 


John Rowan,' 


103 


Sarah Merchant, 104 


Jonathan,' 22, 23, 


24, 26, 52, 


Sarah Rink, 75 




53. 54, 66 


Sarah Tillier, 68 


Jonathan," 


55 


Spencer, 107, 125 


Joseph,' 


20 


Stephen Beasley Linnard, 109, 


Joseph, Col., 


30,31.32 


125 


Joseph," 


45 


Thomas,' 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14 


Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, 


Thomas,^ 16, 17, 21, 24, 25 


Capt., 


89. "3 


Thomas,' 23, 25, 38, 39, 40, 41, 


Joseph Biddle Wilkinson,' 113 


42, 43, 45, 63 


Katharine (Mrs.), 


121 


Thomas," 45 


Laura Adele Marie 


128 


Thomas,* 62, 66 


Lydia Baird, 


no 


Thomas, Rev., 4 


Lydia Spencer, 


89 


Thomas Neall, Med. Dir., 75, 


Margaret,' 


20 


97 


Margaret," 


32,55 


Thomas Norwood,* 63, 75 


Margaret Rowan, 


57, 66, 74 


Thomas Norwood,' 98 


Margaretta, 


32 


Thomas Rowan, 55 


Marion, 


80 


Valeria Biddle, 104 


Mary (Mrs.), 


32 


Valeria C, 91, 120 


Mary,' 


21,33 


Valeria Fullerton, 109 


Mary," 


45,51 


Virginia Merchant, 104 


Mary,* 


68 


Walter Elliot, 82, 102 


Mary," 


75 


William,' 6 


Mary Ann, 


91 


William,' 20 


Mary Clementina, 


no 


William," 45, 60, 62, 63 


Mary Deming, 


126 


WiUiam,* 63, 64 


Mary Elizabeth, 


66 


Wilham," 75, 76 


Mary Needles, 


75,96 


William Henry, Gen., 90, 112, 


Nathaniel Shipman, 


126 


114, 116, 117, 118 


Norwood, 


64 


William McFunn, Col., 89, 103 


Parmenas, 


6 


Pepper, Frederick S., 81 


Philip Thomas, 


107 


John Worrell, 81 


Rebecca, 


SI 


Perkins, Abraham Robinson, 57, 66, 


Richard, 


4 


73 


Richard," 


45 


Charles Penrose, 74, 94 


Richard Alexander Fuller- 


Emma Meminger, 95 


ton, Dr., 


89, 105 


Graham, 74 


Richard Alexander Fuller- 


Jane Robinson, 73 


ton, Jr., 


107, 123 


Lucy Graham, 73 



151 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Perkins, Lydia, 


46 


Roberts, Mary (Mrs.), 


30 


Martha Francis, 


93 


Robinson, Abraham, 20 


32,57 


Mary Hannah, 


73 


Ann, 


44 


Mary Hawthorn, 


95 


Anthony Wayne,* 


33, 57 


Penrose Robinson, 


73 


Anthony Wayne, ^ 


57.74 


Rowan Penrose, 


95 


David Trumbull Lan- 


Sally Robinson, 


74,94 


man. 


102 


Sarah Jane Robinson 


73 


Henry, 


56 


Thomas, Sr., 


33.57 


Jane, 


33 


Thomas, Jr., 


57 


John, 


44 


Thomas Graham, 


74 


Joseph Penrose, 


33 


Thomas Jefferson, 


57. 72, 73 


Juliana,* 


33.58 


Peters, Richard, 


52 


Margaret, 


33 


Picot, Jane Dalzell, 


78 


Mary,* 


33.56 


Pierson, L. S., 


51 


Mary Ann, 


57 


Pleasants, Samuel, 


82 


Mary Caroline, 


126 


Plumsted, Clement, Hon., 


46,65 


Mary Hannah, 


57. 73 


Sarah, 


65 


Penrose,* 


33.57 


Thomas, 


25 


Penrose,^ 


57.73 


William, Hon., 


25 


Sarah Penrose,* 


33 


Wilham, 


65 


Sarah Penrose,^ 


56 


Polhemus, Abraham, Rev., 


109 


Thomas,* 


32,33 


Cornelia Whitney, 


109 


Thomas, Capt., 


56 


Johannes Theodorus, 


Rev., 109 


Thomas Adams,' 


57.74 


Polwhele, Richard, Rev., 


I 


Thomas Anthony, 


57 


Poole, Nathaniel, 


16 


Wilham Thomas, 


74 


Potter, Jane, 


6 


Roderiquez, Caroline, 


102 


Thomas, 


6 


Rodman, John, 


123 


Potts, Martha T., 


29 


Rohrman, Alice, 


93 


Zebulon, 


29 


Rosengarten, Adolph George, 


103 


Price, Sarah Tillier (Mrs.), 


68 


Harry Bennett, 


103 


Pyle, EUzabeth, 


65 


Rowan, Ann, 26, 45 


, 65, 74 






Hamilton, 


54 


Ralston, Anna Maria, 


lOI 


John, 


54,55 


George, 


lOI 


John, Dr., 


54.65 


JohnC, 


82, 101 


Thomas, 


54 


Randall, Fanny N., 


70 


Rowland, Benjamin, 


29 


Randolph, Elizabeth Emlen 


82 


Catharine, 


29 


Rashleigh, Agnes, 


2 


Mary (Mrs.), 


29 


John, 


2 


Rush, William, 


42 


Revere, Paul, 


40 


Russell, Ehzabeth, 


18 


Richardson, Ann, 


43. 44 


Evans, 


92 


Joseph, 


23,24 


Hannah Lloyd, 


92 


Richard, Hon., 


44 


John, 


18 


Sarah, 


58 


Ruth, Samuel, 


28 


Riddle, Anna Dike, 


100 


Rutter, Carol Penrose, 


94 


Riely, John, 


24 


Clement Stocker, Sr., 


94 


Righton, William, 


46 


Clement Stocker, Jr., 


94 


Rittenhouse, David, 


32 


Frances, 


94 


Roberts, Ann, 


28 


Levi Taylor, 


74.94 


Isaac, 


22 


Margaret Perkins, 


94 


Jane, 


30 


Richard Ashbridge, 


94 


Job, 


30 


Robert Lewis, Sr., 


94 


John, 


28 


Robert Lewis, Jr., 


94 



152 



INDEX. 





PAGE 




PAGE 


Sandys, Ann, 


44 


Stewart, James, 


97 


Henry, 


44 


Margaret Ann, 


75>97 


John, 


44 


Mary (Mrs.), 


97 


Sibilla or Sybil (Mrs 


.). 44 


Stovell, James, 


93 


Saunder, Edward, Capt., 


9 


James A., 


93 


Schlatter, Michael, Rev., 


43 


John Penrose, 


93 


Schofield, Newlin, 


28 


Mary Alice, 


93 


Scott, Mary Dickinson, 


100 


Stroud, Morris Wistar, Sr., 


94 


Thomas A., Col., 


100 


Morris Wistar, Jr., 


94 


Scull, Mary, 


88 


William Daniel, 


94 


Nicholas, 


88 


Supplee, WilUam, 


55 


Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 


Suydam, John Richard, 


lOI 


Hon., 


89 


Liza, 


lOI 


Mary, 


107 


Swann, Sherlock,'' 


102 


Sharp, Anthony, 


55 


Sherlock,* 


102 


Isaac, Col., 


54,55 


Thomas, 


82, 102 


Joseph, 


55 


Thomas, Gov., 


102 


Margaret, 


55 


Sweet, Charlotte Bartlett Wilhel- 


Mary, 


55 


mina. 


78 


Rachel, 


55 


WiUiam Gray, 


78 


Sarah, 


32,55 






Sharpe, A. B., 


104 


Taylor, Clement Newbold, 


100 


Shaw, John, 


46 


Francis Henry, 


100 


Sheppard, Moses, 


18 


Marion, 


100 


Nathan, 


18 


Phebe Emlen, 


100 


Sherlock, Ehzabeth Gilmer 


, 102 


William Johnson, Dr., 


100 


Sherman, William Tecumseh, 


William Johnson, Jr., 


100 


Gen., 


90 


Terry, Alfred H., Brig.-Gen., 


71 


Shipman, Mary Deming, 


109, 126 


Tete, Francis, 


76 


Nathaniel, Hon., 


126 


Mary Louisa, 


76 


Shoemaker, Ann, 


27 


Thayer, M. Russell, Hon., 


99 


Benjamin H., 


18 


Sophia Watmough, 


99 


Esther, 


18 


Thomas, Ann, 19 


, 28, 29 


George, 


18 


Elizabeth, 


29 


Isaac, 


16, 18, 27 


Hannah, 


29 


John, 


18,27 


Isaac, 


28 


Joseph, 


18 


Jacob, 


28 


Marj' (Mrs.), 


27 


Jacob M., 


74 


Sarah, 


18 


Jane, 


29 


Thomas, 


18,27 


John, 


28 


Shute, Rebecca (Mrs.), 


25 


Jonathan, 27 


, 28, 29 


Shuter, Christopher, 


8 


Joseph, 


28 


Skinner, Nancy, 


119 


Lucretia Eleanor, 


28 


Skipwith, Sarah Niverson, 


lOi 


Mary Frances Caroline 


106 


Smith, Elizabeth, 


38, 59, 65 


Nathan, 


19, 28 


Hannah, 


61 


Philip, Hon., 


106 


Levisa, 


101 


Philip, Jr., 


106 


Sarah Ann, 


123 


Rachel, 


28 


Smoot, Lloyd Duval, 


99 


Rachel Gorgas, 


57,74 


Smout, Edward, 


12 


Richard, 


29 


Sneed, John L., 


120 


Sarah, 


27, 28 


Spencer, Elihu, Rev., 


88 


Thompson, Emily, 


102 


Lydia, 


88 


Lucian Peters, 


102 


St. Clair, Arthur, Gen., 


37 


Tillier, Rudolph, 46, 47, 


67, 119 



153 



INDEX. 




PAGE 




PAGE 


Tillier, Sarah (Mrs.), 


48 


Wayne, William,* 


60 


Tittermary, Lurana C, 


98 


William, Maj., 


75. 95, 96 


Todd, Lemuel, 


104 


Wilham,' 


96 


Townsend, Annie, 


91, 120 


William,* 


96 


Edwin F., Col., 


128 


Weatherby, Jane Elizabeth, 


97 


Lucy Wadham, 


119, 128 


Mary Needles, 


97 


Travis, Elizabeth Liston, 


101 


Wilham Henry, 


75,97 


Tregetho, John, 


4 


Webb, Martha, 


80 


Nora, 


4 


Weems, Sarah Margaret, 


106 


Trent, William, 


12; 15 


Wharton, Hannah, 


79 


Trevenen, Elizabeth, 


6 


Lucy, 


122 


James, Capt., 


6 


Thomas, Jr., Gov., 


123 


John, Rev., 


6 


Thomas Lloyd, 


122 


Trumbull, John, 


38 


White, Abi, 


119 


Twaddell, Mary, 


92 


Whitworth, Laura La Tour 


119 


Tyler, John, President 


70 


Wickersham, Sarah Hayes, 


76 


Tyson, Elisha, 


18 


Widdifield, Hannah (Mrs.), 


76 


Elizabeth, 


28 


James, 


76 


Isaac, 


18 


Rebecca, 


63,76 


Lucretia, 


18 


Wilkerson, Gabriel, 


15 


Mary, 


18 


Wilkinson, Ann, 


89 


Matthew, 


19 


Edward, 


114 


Nathan, 


18 


Fannie, 


114 


Thomas, 


28 


Henry,*' 


89, 113 


William, 


18 


Henry,^ 


114 






James, Maj.-Gen., 


47, 68, 89 


Valentine, Mary, 


96 


James,' 


"3 


Vause, Samuel, 


13 


James Coleman, 


114 


Vining, Miss, 


38 


Jesse, 


114 


von Albade, Francis T., 


76 


Joseph Biddle, 


66,89 


von Knyphausen, Baron, 


35 


Penrose, 


114 






Robert, Col., 


112 


Wall, Sarah, 


18 


Walter, 


114 


Wallace, Thomas, 


91 


Willett, Thomas, Col., 


123 


Warden, Eliakim, 


46 


William, Col., 


123 


Lydia, 


46,47 


Williams, Elizabeth, 


29 


Thomas, 


46 


Isaac, 


29 


Warner, Edward, 


16 


Maria, 


99 


Grace E., 


120 


Williamson, Basil Maturin, 


99 


Washington, George, Gen. 


33. 34, 35. 


Jesse, Jr., 


76,98 




36, 52. 53 


Jesse,' 


99 


Watmough, Sophia, 


99 


Jesse,' 


99 


Watt, George Latimer, 


92 


Jessie, 


99 


Mary Harper, 


92 


Katharine Buckley, 


99 


Wayne, Anthony, Maj.-Gen., 21, 33, 


Loraine Penrose, 


99 




35 


Margaret, 


92 


Anthony,* 


60 


Mary Eleanor 


92 


Edith, 


96 


Peter, 


98 


Isaac, Capt., 


33 


Sophia Watmough, 


99 


Isaac, Col., 


38, 59' 96 


Wilham von Albade, 


97,99 


Margaretta, 


58,96 


WilUng, Thomas, 


40, 42 


Mary, 


60 


Wilson, Mary Mason, 


74 


Mary Atlee, 


96 


Wirgman, John M., 


96 


Richard, 


60 


William Wayne 


96 



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INDEX. 



PACE 




PAGE 


Wister, Elizabeth Harvey, 82 


Worrell, Adeline, 


81 


Louis, 82 


Susan, 


81 


Woodbridge, Benjamin, Rev., 107 


Wright, Helen Armstrong, 


74,94 


Dudley, Hon., 106, 107 


John Armstrong, 


94 


John, Rev., 107 






Mary, 104 


Zook, David, 


96 


Woodward, Mary, 18 


Hannah J., 


75,96 



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ADDENDUM. 



ADDENDUM. 

After the foregoing History of the Penrose Family had gone 
through the press, and just as the volume was about to be 
bound, the Honorable Boies Penrose received the following 
letter from his kinsman, Sir Hector Maclean Hay, together with 
the accompanying copy of the "Memorial" forwarded in 1788 
by Sheffield Howard, Esq. [see note, page 67], to the Commis- 
sioners appointed by Act of Parliament for enquiring into the 
Losses and Services of the American Loyalists. The writer of 
the letter, as will be seen, is a son of Sir James Douglass Hamil- 
ton Hay, and grandson of Sir Thomas Hay, who married Anne, 
widow of Major Charles Bingham, and daughter of Sheffield 
Howard, and the mother of Anne Howard Bingham, wife of 
Honorable Clement Biddle Penrose. 

J. G. L. 
January, 1904. 



Ingoldsby, Hampton, 

Middlesex (England). 
December, 1903. 
Dear Sir: 

About the end of September last I received a letter from Mr. H. E. Woods, 
of Boston, asking, on your behalf, if I could give him the parentage and an- 
cestry of Sheffield Howard, Esq., of New York, and of Major Charles Bingham, 
who married Mr. Howard's daughter, Anna Howard. Unfortunately I was 
unable to do so, nothing among the few family papers I possess giving the 
information. 

Within the last few weeks I have received from one of my sisters, resident 
in Canada, who was with my Father, Sir James D. H. Hay, at the time of his 
death, a document, of the existence of which I was ignorant, though, no doubt, 
it ought to have been sent to me then. It is really of no value, but probably 
you will think, as I do, that it is interesting, being a fair copy of a Memorial, 
drawn up by Mr. Sheffield Howard in 1788, which was to be laid before a 
Royal Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to investigate the claims 
of American Loyalists, for losses incurred by them in consequence of the War 
of Independence. 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



I have made an exact verbal copy of this, which I now enclose to you. The 
old paper, which, I am inclined to think, is in the handwriting of Anna Howard 
(then Bingham), is considerably decayed, but still perfectly legible, is no doubt 
a copy made at the time, of the original which was intended to be presented 
to the Commission, for before each of the two signatures the word (signed) 
is inserted. 

The story connected with this "Memorial" is as follows: Soon after its 
date, it was entrusted to Major Bingham, together with all the documents 
referred to in the text, to take with him to Europe to be laid before the Com- 
mission. It is said he went first to Paris, where he remained some time, and 
on his arrival in London, he found that the time allowed for claims to be made 
had expired, and that Mr. Howard's Memorial could not be received. So far 
as I ever heard. Major Bingham did not return to New York, or send back 
the papers, and apparently soon after died. Mrs. Bingham, left a widow, 
married in 1793, at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, Captain 
Thomas (afterwards Sir Thomas) Hay, and was the mother of my Father, Sir 
James D. H. Hay, another son, Henry Cranston Hay, and two daughters, 
Augusta and Harriet Napier Hay, the former of whom died at the residence 
of Clement B. Penrose, "Belle Lite" in Pennsylvania,* in her early youth. 
It was from the other daughter, my aunt Harriet, that I first heard the story 
of the Memorial, but I do not think she was aware of the existence of the " Copy" 
which was found among my Father's papers. 

I remember hearing from my Father a good many years ago, that he had 
some correspondence with Mr. Charles Penrose, the eldest son, I think, of 
Clement B. Penrose, but I never heard what the subject of it was. 

I do not know when Mr. Howard died, but probably not long after the 
date of the Memorial, as he was then 85 years of age, but I think it surprising 
that some effort was not made (if it was not) to recover from the Government 
of the emancipated Colonies, some portion of the property confiscated during 
the war. One would have thought, that after the pacification, people who had 
been endamaged in that way, and subsequently remained citizens of the New 
Republic, would have been treated generously. Indeed, I think it ought to 
have been one of the terms of the Treaty of Peace that this should be so. 

To refer to the life of Sheffield Howard in New York, we, on this side, 
know nothing but what he states in the Memorial, except that he married a 
Miss Thodyt (or Thordy) of New York, and have no idea what profession or 
business he exercised which enabled him to accumulate a fortune. It is possible 



* On the bank of the Delaware near Frankford. 

t It has always been supposed in the family that she was his second wife and the mother of 
his children, and was a French Huguenot. His first wife is said to have been a daughter or 
sister of his tutor, whom he married against his father's commands, which eventually led to his 
exile to New York, where the rest of his life was passed. — Ed. 

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ADDENDUM. 



that you may be able to enlighten me on this point, for no doubt your Grand- 
father, Mr. Clement B. Penrose, knew, and may have left some note of it. 

I am afraid I shall have exhausted your patience, and so will conclude with 
best wishes for the New Year. 

Believe me, Dear Sir, 
To Hon. Boies Penrose, Yours very sincerely, 

Washington. Hector M. Hay 

Copy. 

(First page of manuscript.) 

To the Honorable Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament for 
enquiring into the losses and services of the American Loyalists. 

The Memorial of Shefi&eld Howard Esqr of the City of New York, within 
the Province of New York in North America. 

Humbly Sheweth 

That the Memorialist, a native of England (and of the eldest branch of 
the Illustrious Family of his name), who is now in the eighty-fifth year of his 
age, passed over from that Country into this, so long since, as the year one 
thousand seven hundred and thirty seven, that is above half a century ago, 

(Second page of manuscript.) 

and acquired within the intermediate prolonged period, a property both real 
and personal, which according to the current estimation of so new a Country, 
might well enough be called a competent, if not a considerable fortune. 

That the Memorialist having from the very earliest of the Trouble, and 
afterward, during the whole period of open hostility with the refractory Colonies, 
in all its vicissitude of events, been uniform and consistent, in an un-equivocal 
and unreserved avowal of his attachment to the cause of His Majesty's Govern- 
ment, and to the principle of its paramount right of Supremacy over all these 
transatlantic Provinces, as well as strenuous and steady in his endeavours to 

(Third page of manuscript.) 

manifest and demonstrate such attachment by every positive overt act within 
the sphere of his influence and example — was consequently, on the other hand, 
to the full as much distinguished and marked out, by an over-abundant share 
of the calamities of the contest. 

That the Memorialist states the aggregate and sum total of his losses by 
violence and other the like lawless means, to be Five and Forty thousand three 
hundred and ninety Pounds complete, according to the Schedule and detale, 
to be by and by hereto annexed, and that he is now at the verge of extreme 
old age, from the necessity of continuing his abode at New York, reduced, 
and that too, under the severest newly devised legal disabilities and disquali- 
fications, to the sad, the super-aggravated distress of shifting for, and eking 

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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



(Fourth page of manuscript.) 



out a precarious and miserable subsistence from the fragments and the gleanings 
of his once flourishing, and even over-sufficient Fortune. 

That the debilities, the helplessness, and at the same time, the impoverish- 
ment of such extreme superannuation, which have been the means of changing 
the resentment, the exasperation, and the even almost proverbial implacability, 
of the now wholly Independent Colonies, so far into humanization and com- 
passion as to induce them to afford the Memorialist a quiet and undisturbed 
sufferance in continuance among them, are also the untoward and only true 
and assignable reason, for his the Memorialists, not having long since preferred 
an account of his losses, either to the cognizance of this Board collectively, in 
London, or yet to that of its members, who now are, or lately were, in Nova 



(Fifth page of manuscript.) 

Scotia inasmuch as a Sea voyage, although utterly impracticable at his years, 
was nevertheless, in either case, apprehended to be altogether unavoidable: 
For the Memorialist sequestered and secluded as he is, from the whole world, 
has but lately understood, that the examination of sufferers, in their own proper 
persons, might be dispensed with at discretion, and consequently, that the 
purposes of this application might long ere now have been effectuated and 
completed, in the ordinary course of procuration — 

That an opening, without the absolute sacrifice of life, being thus found 
out, for putting in a claim to such participation in the generous bounty of 
the British Legislature, as it may be in the remedial and compensatory powers 
of this Board to award in the premises; and the Memorialist more-over repre- 
senting the account now next to follow, to be in every item avouchable by 



(Sixth page of manuscript.) 

the most explicit documentary evidence, as well as the unimpeachable and 
concurrent Wva-voce testimony of many American characters of the first de- 
scription and repute now in London. 

He does thereupon, with infinite deference, but with the utmost earnestness 
and solicitude nevertheless, pray and beseech you Gentlemen of the Commission, 
to indulge him, in his representative, Captain Charles Bingham, wdth as early 
an attention, and as prompt a dispatch, as can possibly consist with the routine 
of business, and the established forms of the Board. 

(Signed) Sheffield Howard 

City of New York, June 1788 

P. S. The Memorialist has preferred an application directly to the Board, 

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ADDENDUM. 



(Seventh page of manuscript.) 

instead of the Voyaging Commissioners, because the whole body of his viva- 
voce evidence, now happens to have their fixed residences in London. 

(Signed) Sheffield Howard 

(First page of account of losses.) 

The fore-going Memorialist's account of losses, derived to him in his rights 
and property, during the late unhappy dissensions in America, in consequence 
of his loyalty to his Majesty, and attachment to the British Government. 

Imprimis. 
Anno 1775. In the year 1775 that is in the very commencement of hostility, 
the Memorialist was, by violence and other the like lawless 
means, compelled to accept of arbitrary compositions, upon 
various specialties of the law, to the collective amount of a 
considerable sum, as will in due time be particularly detaled 

(Second page of account of losses.) 

and set forth in evidence, by which he sustained a direct, posi- 
tive, and nett loss of £s°°° 

Item 2. 
1776 In the year 1776, Sir William Howe the Commander in Chief 

of the King's armies, ordered, upon taking possession of this 
City of New York, the whole of the Commercial medium of 
paper currency emitted by the Assemblies of the Province, to 
be cried down altogether at once; and that thenceforward 
nothing should circulate but coin; by this strong measure, and 
abrupt stroke of power, a sum of £1500 in these bills, which 
the Memorialist had laid up to subsist his family, till a total 
tranquilization should be restored, became entirely useless, and 
so far a positive and nett loss; and the various bills, so set 



Carried ford £5000 



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THE PENROSE FAMILY. 



(Third page of account of losses.) 

The fore-going Memorialist's acct of losses continued 

Brought forward ;^5ooo 
apart and laid up, remain precisely in their then condition, 
to this moment in hand, to be produced in evidence 

for 1500 
Item 3. 
Toward the close of the same year there happened a conflagra- 
tion of prodigious extent within this City imputed to the machin- 
ations and secret contrivance of the disaffected inhabitants; 
a proof of which, the notoriety must of course render unneces- 
sary. In this conflagration, the Memorialist was endamaged 
in the destruction of several houses, his property, erected upon 
Scites, of his own Ukewise as will be proved to the amount 
of 2000 



Carried forward ^^8500 

(Fourth page of account of losses.) 

The fore-going Memorialist's acct of Losses continued 

Brought forward £8500 

Item 4. 
ab 1775 During the seven years of Warfare, and until the ultimate 

usque ad 1783 evacuation of this City by the King's Troops, in consequence 
of the General pacification and declared Independency of these 
Colonies; there were a large Scite of Ground and Premises in 
the continued and un-interrupted tenure and occupancy of 
the Board of Ordnances and for this occupancy, no rent having 
as yet ever been paid the Memorialist is consequently at £150 
by the year a further loser of 1050 

Item 5. 
Another large Scite of Ground and Premises, in like manner 
in the tenure and occupancy of the Army in the Department of 



Carried forward £9550 



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ADDENDUM. 



(Fifth page of account of losses.) 

The fore-going Memorialist's acct of Losses continued 

Brought forward £9550 
the Barrack Master General, having also been wholly left 
unpaid for; the MemoriaKst is thereby, at a rent of j£i20 by 
the year, a further loser to the amount of 840 

Item 6. 
The Memorialist has besides the specialties in the law, wrested 
from him by violence in the year 1775, been further compelled 
to accept of arbitrary and trivial compositions, on other, and 
ab 1775 much larger Specialties, since then, and is thereby a loser, as 
usque ad 1783 vnll by and by be proved in the detale, to the additional amount 
of 1500° 

Item 7. 
The Memorialist has in like manner, in progression of time, 
within the aforesaid period of years had a further sum in 



Carried forward £25390 

(Sixth page of account of losses.) 

The fore-going Memorialist's acct of Losses continued 

Brought forward £25390 
Specialties of the law, wrested from him by arbitrary and 
compulsory composition; and upon these there has, as wall be 
proved, accrued a further loss of 15000 

Item et Ultimat: 8. 
The MemoriaKst has more-over been deprived in the way of 
confiscation and sale, of the Property and Fee of a Farm or 
Plantation in the County of Monmouth within the Neighbouring 
Province of New Jersey, which cost him £2100, above two and 
thirty years ago, and which, in its improvement since, could 
not be estimated at less than 25 years purchase upon nett 
render of £200 by the year; so that he stands in respect of 
this confiscation at a super-additional and final loss of 5000 



City of New York £4539° 

June 1788 (Signed) Sheffield Howard 



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